Newsletter The Man Who Coined “Coworking” (And What We Lost Along the Way) Bernard De Koven invented the term in 1999 as “social technology for working together as equals” - then corporate scaling buried his collaborative vision under premium amenities and profit metrics.
Newsletter The Companies That Market Community Don't Have It On involvement, extraction, and getting in the kitchen together
When Comfort Becomes Complicity Part 2 What a 21-year-old Irish cashier refusing to scan a grapefruit taught me about complicity, attention, and what we do next
Movements Don't Need Grand Plans. They Need One Step. What a 20-year-old, a former Green Party leader, and 15 years of coworking taught me about building your story one email at a time.
The Corporate Story Says You’re Failing. The Data Says You’re Half the Market. Why 450 independent businesses chose connection over scale—and what that means for anyone building community at a human scale
Your Boundaries Aren't Giving Up. They're Building Something. On all-or-nothing thinking, choosing newsletters over land trusts, and why small steps create real community impact
Newsletter When Your Big Vision Becomes Your Biggest Problem The thing that inspired you most is the thing keeping you stuck.
Why You Think Your Work Is Shit (And Why That's Actually Normal) The Gap closes when you start telling your story, not when you're ready to tell it
The Heavy Bags We Pretend We’re Not Carrying From doomscrolling at midnight to the grief we don’t name, here’s how hidden weight shapes us — and what happens when we stop ignoring it.
There are two kinds of pain. One is a prison, the other is a choice. And most of us are choosing the prison without even knowing it.
The System Wants You to Be a Customer of Your Own Life It's time to stop consuming and start creating.
