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The Anti-Fragile Playbook

A step-by-step guide for those seeking to deliver a self-funded economic revival that addresses the root causes of generational poverty and trauma.

The original proposition

Build the capacity to create and keep wealth locally.

The Anti-Fragile Playbook is about investing in the productive capacity of these places and populations with historically diminished access to opportunities to build and keep wealth. Financial investment seeds the story, but what’s really needed is access to the tools to seed, root, grow and sustain that wealth locally.

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Ideas, experiments, and what followed.

The Tannehill Pilot

Our active community economic revival pilot in Austin's Tannehill Creek Watershed. The community app has launched, and we're recruiting participants.

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Written Archive

Trace the ideas behind AFP, the experiment itself, and selected later developments.

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Podcast Archive

Listen to the conversations in which Bene Esse first emerged as a concept.

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Anti-Fragile Playbook

“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”