Does Abundance Start at Home?

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Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.

Clara: The reason I wanted to have this conversation is that you, Jasmine, had a really interesting post where you talked about civic culture in Taiwan compared to the US. In this post, you cited a Twitter thread by Kelsey about a microschool that she helps run as an example of the kind of bottom-up civic participation that Taiwan does well. You also talk about Abundance in that post, from an angle I haven’t seen discussed as much as I think it should be — a lot of it is implicitly or explicitly anti-localist. How does that square with building up an ethos of civic participation, of people…

Does Abundance Start at Home?

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