Following my fun+indulgent post about how power flows from form, and the more strategic+applied post laying out a design framework for wielding that power, I asked AI to generate a expansive list of all the ways humans organize power, money, and each other. It’s meant to map the full possibility space of organizational forms you… Continue reading How We Organize Power
Category: Politics
Design Tenets for Structural Advocacy
When I first designed my fundraising workshop, I spent six months turning my intuitions, patterns, and experiences into a system that could be taught. The work was about making implicit knowledge explicit and figuring out how to make it land for other people. While I’m mostly known as a fundraiser, a significant portion of my… Continue reading Design Tenets for Structural Advocacy
Real Power
There are forms of power that require consent: laws, rights, institutions, elections, norms, ethics, morality… They only function when all sides agree to a shared premise. We are no longer in one of those moments. But there are forms of power that do not require permission—forms you can exercise unilaterally. These are where you should… Continue reading Real Power
Geoffrey MacDougall 