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Power and superpowers
Stories should build relationships that grow power. Newsletters give you superpowers.…
Ted Fickes
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Newsletter Nerd Club 2026
Newsletter Nerd Club is a space for people who want to build newsletters that change the world.…
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Slow power, AI rabbit holes and smokey bear sutras
The latest Future Community jobs plus AI content disclosure and the transformational difference between being involved in the story and reading the story.…
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Do you think it could be slower?
Ideas on the slow but sustainable work of humans turning stories into meaning and power.…
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Good versus great
How and why great fundraising builds community and lifts up every part of an organization. Spoiler: It's about people. Not money.…
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Curiosity, discernment, and seafoam green
Our work environments don't reward curiosity, especially for the solo worker. How does community solve that?…
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The big idea and the stuff
New jobs! Trans joy and backcountry splitboarding. What value does information, news, and stories (aka content) have in a landscape of distrust and hyper-individualism.…
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You don't know what you don't know
The value of outside perspective. A good nonprofit sector fundraising report. What Apple Pro Tools tells us about the future of data centers.…
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Spaces to think
Storytelling without time and space for true experience is only more words - more cognitive overload - for people struggling to find meaning.…
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Less sucking. More thinking.
A campaign can lose and still win big. And BIG ideas on protests, infrastructure, why people take action, climate storytelling, third spaces, community science and more...…
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First jobs
Are entry level jobs in nonprofits, policy, social good even out there? And building relational infrastructure.…
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🤖 Mediocre men and their robots
The radical mediocrity of AI and why we keep chasing tech myths. Yarn-bombing Copenhagen's statues. So long Combined Federal Campaign. We hardly knew ya.…