Anti-Fragile Playbook
Community economics
The Kitchen Table Capitalist
The recipe for a community economic revival starts in the kitchen.
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Ideas · Experiments · Practical knowledge
Articles
The work of building more capable communities begins with learning to see what is already possible.
This collection brings together the foundational writing of Ruth Glendinning and Kent Dahlgren, exploring local enterprise, community identity, economic participation, and self-governance.
Some of these essays challenge familiar assumptions. Others offer practical ways to begin. Together, they document ideas that helped shape the Anti-Fragile Playbook.
Neighborhood storytelling
Rewriting the #NeighborhoodStory
Tools of Success: The Anti-Fragile Playbook.
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Placemaking
Reclaiming Your Place at the Table
From “placeholder” to “placemaker” in four steps.
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S.L.O.W. Tech
It's Time for S.L.O.W. Tech®
Sustainable Local Organic Work + Technology: an approach to community economic development that begins with people.
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From economic possibility to practical action
What happens after a community recognizes its own capacity?
Ruth's work asks what communities can accomplish by organizing their existing productive resources and relationships. That naturally raises another set of questions.
How do people establish a shared vision? How do they coordinate decisions and resources? And how might they govern their collective endeavors without surrendering local agency?
A community does not
become self-governing
merely because it
wishes to be.
It must develop
the capacity to act.
Those questions lead into Kent's contributions to the original Anti-Fragile Playbook article collection.
Questions and answers
Is this Communism? What is this Anti-Fragile Playbook?
A Q&A about the project and the assumptions people bring when encountering its vision of anti-fragility.
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Practical framework
Dancing through Difficulties, “by the Numbers,” into Sovereignty (steps 1–3)
A step-by-step approach to launching and sustaining self-sufficient communities.
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Community building
Community Building 101: Vision
How a walk through a neighborhood can become the beginning of a vision for a more self-sufficient local community.
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Self-governance
Community Building 120: Franchises as a Form of Autonomous Self-Governance
Exploring the franchise prototype as a model for local self-governance.
Read on Medium ↗These articles are part of the original AFP reading collection. External links open the original publications on Medium.
From reading to doing
Ideas become useful when people put them to work.
The Anti-Fragile Playbook is not merely a collection of arguments about what communities ought to do. It is an invitation to begin.
Explore the active Tannehill Marketville Collective pilot, where participants are putting these ideas into practice.
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