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When the Bento met the Doughnut
Over the last 18 months, the Bento Society has hosted a series of experiments exploring values and self-interest. In April
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Exploring a wider view of self-interest
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Introducing the Library of Economic Possibility and the Future Us Grant
The Bento Society is a community brought together by a belief that life is bigger than Now Me. We use
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The yearly Bento and Bento groups
How ready are you for the coming year? How clear are you on what happened to you this past year?
Interviews
Haa Shagoon with Morgan X’agatkeen Howard
Earlier this year during a Weekly Bento discussion on long-term thinking, a member of the audience raised their hand. Morgan
Ideas
Rethinking self-interest
In the late 1990s, people around the world began to live in a state of rising fear of two missing
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Don't be scared, you're not the only one
Sup y’all. It’s been a minute. How’s your apocalypse going? Yeah, mine too.
Sending love to everyone
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Theories of time
I recently read a book I’d been curious about called The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe.
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The values stack IRL
Two weeks ago I shared the Values Stack as an illustration of how values operate.
Values are expressed through three
The internet
Social exchanges
Last week a group of academics in the Netherlands announced plans for a radical but pragmatic shift in the country’
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The values stack
Gas is cheap but nobody’s filling up.
Houses are full but streets are empty.
Businesses are dying while others
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Our new normal
Gas is cheap but nobody’s filling up.
Houses are full but streets are empty.
Businesses are dying while others
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The weekly Bento
It all started on a Sunday morning last fall.
I’d written a book that had recently come out. On
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Post-capitalism for realists
The other night I was invited to dinner with several wealthy and powerful people. This is not a normal thing
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This is how long it takes to change the world
We want change to be instant. Immediate. But there is biological, historical, and sociological evidence that suggests thirty years is
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How the bento box can change how we see the world
We don’t think of the bento box as an important innovation, but we should. Created sometime in 12th or
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The origins of Bentoism
I’ve long held a belief that our notion of value was too narrow. I remember reading a piece in
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This Could Be Our Future
On October 29, Viking/Penguin Books will publish This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World.