Future Story Lab

I wrote this in January 2021, and brought it up at Hanae Bezad's book signing last night as we were all discussing how to create shared value from transformation. Places of engagement come in many forms ranging from the local grocery store, to 'third places' and books or poems. It's anywhere that we exchange wealth in its many forms with others.

"We have been entrained to reduce our interactions with each other to economically measurable transactions, e.g., monetary capital for goods and services. This devalues the additional, invisible capitals in play that brought us to that point: attention, relationship, time, trust and wisdom, aka the ‘keystone capitals’ in our economic ecosystem."

2021: Transacting Transformation We need places of engagement to grow community health & wealth

From September 4 2020...

It's taken longer than expected, but we're still working on the Anti-Fragile Playbook!

"The goal is an engaged community organized to coordinate the local capacities for learning & earning, activating the potential of arts, crafts, food production and funding assets. All of this is rooted in the mission of triggering a continual stream of commercially viable innovative products and integrated systems. And, most importantly, producing & keeping wealth local so that the neighborhood becomes anti-fragile."

Won’t You Be A Neighbor Putting the Neighbor back in the ’Hood (red sweater optional)

Community Renaissance Market received a Proclamation from the City of Austin on August 18 2011 and declared our official first anniversary to be August 24 2011

"During this current economic downturn, CRM is on an upswing -- revitalizing an old building, creating community and positioning more people for a sustainale financial future."

At the time I was still recovering from Keith's death in 2010 and made a lot of business mistakes as I wasn't fully present, but the heart of the CRM mission was always clear: create a place for people to take the first step into their future with the support of a community.

It wasn't till a decade later that I could see that even though CRM was a financial failure, it fulfilled its mission and, therefore, was actually a success. Being gifted that new perspective by Kent Dahlgren and Trudy Martinez was a game changer.

In 2021, I wrote this article about 'CRM v2.14', which has been on the back burner for a few years. It feels like it's time to bring it forward as a SLOW Tech incubator/marketplace. Clearly I'm following my own advice: Move SLOW and fix things.

"With the addition of the 214 Alpha platform, it’s simple to create a virtual marketplace and root the neighborhood economic ecosystem as the brick and mortar community marketplace is being built out.

The platform allows the seeding, rooting and growing of the invisible ‘keystone capitals’ needed to complement and multiply the ‘hard’ capitals such as money, real estate and other resources that can be objectively measured for value."

https://guruth.medium.com/2021-developing-crm-v2-14-7d8e298c8b45?sk=f3ea8dda28342d391056609d9a0d86ca