Prototyping Social Forms of Care

Social innovators are experimenting with new social forms of care: centers, campuses, parlors, and practices.

Prototyping Social Forms of Care with Mati Engel & Sam Wolf 0:00 / 4553.708344 1× I’m coming up on a year of researching health and wellness, and I’m starting to notice parallels to phenomena I studied in the crypto space. Much of what I’ve investigated over the last 7 years has been some kind of experimental organization or institutional prototype. In crypto, these were largely groups of strangers building software to manage financial resources and make collective decisions. Now I’m paying attention to organizations that center healing in some way, from virtual coaching retreats to community

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