I Can’t Drive… 35! The Rationale for Rationing (Episode 19 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Drop the hoarding mentality, break out your coupon book, and engage your sense of fairness as Crazy Town explores the rationale behind rationing.
2020: When the Great Disruption Began
COVID-19 is just like a match thrown on a tinder dry forest floor on a hot windy day and starting a wildfire. The match isn’t the key – it’s where it lands.
Coronavirus and the Three Bears (Episode 18 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
Here at Crazy Town headquarters, we’ve been calling for pretty drastic changes to the economy to make it fair, resilient, and sustainable. But changes don’t materialize just because you want them--usually you need a crisis to get people thinking...
Nafeez Ahmed on Synchronous Failure and Post-Pandemic Systems Change
As the pandemic grows, governments and communities are not only struggling to minimize loss of life and protect our fragile healthcare and economic systems, they are wrestling with questions about how we can recover when this storm eventually passes....
The 10,000-Mile Cod and Insane Global Trade (Episode 16 of Crazy Town)
Asher Miller Jason Bradford Rob Dietz
With coronavirus prompting a slowdown in global trade, it’s all the more critical to find a different way forward. Thankfully, Asher, Rob, and Jason have a few ideas about how to have fun while building a resilient local economy.
An Overview of the Systemic Implications of the Coronavirus
Let’s create a living open source project—where collective intelligence informs near and intermediate term mitigation, one that helps us as a culture navigate the narrow path between fantasy and doom. When we see gasoline this summer under $1 per...
How Does Pandemic Change the Big Picture?
Will future generations look back on the coronavirus pandemic as a blip or a game changer? Let’s review a few of the major trends that developed during the Anthropocene and engage in a little informed speculation about how they...
Like Previous Pandemics, COVID-19 Will Shape the Fates of Nations
The ways that nations respond to the pandemic today will largely determine their fortunes and fates over the next couple of decades at least, and perhaps beyond. Nations that are more successful at controlling the disease and minimizing fatalities...
Take One for the Team: Weathering the COVID-19 Storm with Altruism
We can’t predict how this will all turn out, but acting altruistically has one surefire outcome: your future self will take comfort knowing that there are people who survived because of your choice to put others first today. So...
Leslie Davenport on staying sane amid coronavirus craziness
I don’t know about you, but the never-ending stream of worrying news about the coronavirus and social distancing are taking a toll on my psyche. So I reached out to the delightful Leslie Davenport—a licensed psychotherapist who I got...