Visions for
A Beautiful Future

The issues of today and tomorrow that I’m most passionate about.

Applied Entertainment

Imagine a future where the role of entertainment is intrinsically interwoven with tangible social progress. What kind of future could we create if we demanded our entertainment to help humanity flourish?

Regenerative Consumerism

Our desire for the finer things in life has run headlong into our extractive methods and diminishing resources. To produce affordable, high-quality products, entrepreneurs must reinvent the calculus of supply and demand, engaging in regenerative production that not only prevents the depletion of the planet but actively replenishes it.

Youth Equity

What might be possible if we went beyond nurturing to respecting the youth? Through their imagination, idealism and openness, they can help unravel complex problems by bringing much needed trust, curiosity and play into our solution spaces.

Complex Conservation

Philanthropic impulses toward conservation are spurred by even the most cursory exposures to wildlife. But most conservationists soon encounter the immense complexity that has stalled progress for far too many worthwhile efforts. How might we design systems-level solutions with the sophistication and nuance sufficient to dance with such complexity?

Cultivated Organizations

Organizations have overinvested in risk management and shaped their cultures with reductive policy. Imagine a future in which the rituals and ceremonies of our organizations are designed to cultivate trust based on shared values.

Citizen Artist

Increasingly, artists are advancing creative practices in which the community itself is the medium and its dynamic social, cultural and political structures become part of the art. What might we accomplish if we engaged artists and harnessed an artistic process to solve complex social problems?

Beyond Prison

What would we create today if we had the opportunity to rebuild our justice system from the ground up, absent of its ties to antiquated assumptions that any such system must favor punishment over restoration? Imagine a future where we fully unlock the potential contributions of incarcerated individuals, so we can turn that potential into a driving force to heal society's sufferings.

Community Properties

Imagine communities where a creative process forges shared prosperity from common values. What if wealth creation rejected extractive models and instead offered inclusive opportunities for all stakeholders to define, create and protect properties that enable the collective to thrive?