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Democracy is a Service Experience (opens the original)
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Hi friends,How would you like to time travel with me? We’re going to make two stops. First, we’re headed to the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in New York where I gave a talk last month at ’s America 251 on the topic of belonging. Second, we’re going to the year 1996 to the downtown Orlando branch of the Orange County Public Library System.I got my very first library card when I was eight years old. The only person more excited than me that day was the librarian. I still remember walk
Field Notes from Japan #2: The Hidden Infrastructure of Belonging (opens the original)
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In my last field note, I argued that well-maintained systems create trust: Trust that the train will arrive. Trust that the sign will point you in the right direction. Trust that the public restroom will be clean. Trust that someone is caring for the systems we all depend on.But after two weeks in Japan, I started to think trust isn’t the destination, it’s what makes something else possible: Belonging. We spend a lot of time these days talking about how to build community. Cities organize festiv
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