Convergence

This chapter is the least finished, which is appropriate. The thesis is still forming.

The Threads Coming Together

NuMundo is reviving. Funding the Commons is now an independent institution. The mutual credit ideas from ReSource haven’t gone away. Cosmic Convergence is returning in 2026. For the first time, the pieces that were built separately are starting to connect.

Frontier Tower is a physical space where some of this convergence is happening.

Mutual Credit Across Networks

The barter experiments from NuMundo in 2015. The room night credits in Costa Rica. The StableCredit protocol at ReSource. The public goods funding mechanisms at FtC. These are all expressions of the same question: how do you create economic coordination without requiring everyone to have dollars first?

I don’t have a unified answer yet. But the pattern is clearer now than it was a decade ago.

Builders in Nature

There’s a thread I haven’t fully articulated yet about the relationship between building and place. The best work I’ve done has been connected to specific landscapes — Lake Atitlan, the cloud forests of Costa Rica, the communities rooted in particular ecosystems. The tech world treats place as irrelevant. I think that’s wrong, but I’m still working out why it matters and how to build around it.

What I Don’t Know

I’m not sure how these pieces fit together yet. Maybe they don’t all fit. Maybe the convergence is partial and that’s fine. What I know is that the questions haven’t changed much since Berkeley — how do communities govern shared resources, how do we fund what matters, how do we build without extracting — but my understanding of them has.

This site is one attempt to document the journey so far. Not as a finished story, but as a working document. The next chapter is being written now.