How complex systems fail, and why repairing one part rarely repairs the whole. Writing on theories of change, incentives, evaluation, and the chokepoints that determine whether work moves.
Mutual Aid
There is a tendency to reduce mutual aid to food drives, free clothes, community refrigerators, or somebody passing out bottled water at a protest. All of that can absolutely be mutual aid. But if that is as far as we take it, we are missing most of the point.
Policing
Austin's budget vote begins August 12. One category of public safety spending cannot legally be reduced. The other can be cut in an afternoon.
Foundations
How I Learned to Connect the Dots