Steve Teles' notes from an early meeting on the Abundance Movement.| modernpower.substack.com
This movement won't be real unless people like you make it real.| modernpower.substack.com
While away a day getting up to speed on the Abundance Movement.| modernpower.substack.com
An open call to the protagonists of the Abundance Movement.| Modern Power
How "Capture" and "State Incapacity" help us understand societal problems.| modernpower.substack.com
We have to do more than consume content if we want to catalyze the Abundance Movement.| Modern Power
(publishing June 2023)| Modern Power
The challenges of the 21st century demand a more muscular, competent government than we’ve had in the US over the past few decades. Climate change, democratic backsliding, rising China, artificial intelligence and biotechnology risk, etc. are hard problems to solve. With a government in retreat, we will not succeed. In order to transform government over the next decade or two, we need a new aspirational politics that transcends petty partisan bickering.| Modern Power
Abundance can be the next great political program; Democrats should adopt it as their own.| Modern Power
The NIMBY power coalition includes wealthy Atherton VCs and socialist San Francisco Supervisors.| Modern Power
How the California Public Utilities Commission works, and how urban environmentalism can (literally) reshape our country| Modern Power
And How That's Changing in Real Time| modernpower.substack.com
We need more long-term thinking.| Modern Power
Outcome-oriented government starts with a focus on leadership and leaders| Modern Power
And tech leaders should help.| Modern Power
Tech leaders wear blinders — they are trained to ignore politics and government. It's time to change that.| Modern Power
Electing Better Legislators in California Effective Government California has been studying the California legislature 2022 open seat races to find candidates to support who will take on the structural forces — narrow interests, progressive proceduralism, and anti-statism — that we| Modern Power
"A lot of candidates run now for personal brand building and not about the X's and O’s and winning. And it's very frustrating to watch this happen."| Modern Power
Similar intuitions, different prescriptions.| modernpower.substack.com
