An Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg Dear Ms. Schlossberg, I read with great sorrow your New Yorker piece about your diagnosis and the maybe year you have left. About the medications that might buy you more time, if you can afford them, if your insurance approves them, if the system deems you worthy of another sunrise. I’m a stranger, but I’m writing anyway. Not because I can fix what’s broken in your body. But because you’ve spent your career documenting what’s broken in our systems, and I think you’d like to know it can be changed. I have the math, and the application, live and working, to prove it. ...

Measuring What Matters An Open Letter to Erik Brynjolfsson Dear Professor Brynjolfsson, You’ve spent your career measuring the digital economy — and showing that our traditional metrics miss most of the value. GDP doesn’t capture what platforms create or extract. Productivity measures don’t account for the intangible shifts in who benefits from technological change. I’ve built a platform designed around a different measurement: How much of the value goes to the people who created it? ...

Everything for Everyone — Literally An Open Letter to Nathan Schneider Dear Professor Schneider, Your book title haunts me: “Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy.” I read it three years into building Liana Banyan. I’d been calling what I was doing “cooperative commerce” without realizing there was a movement, a history, a consortium of people working on the same problem. Your book gave me context — and courage. ...

Can I Take a Second? An Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg Dear Ms. Schlossberg, I read with great sorrow your New Yorker piece about your diagnosis and the maybe year you have left. About the medications that might buy you more time, if you can afford them, if your insurance approves them, if the system deems you worthy of another sunrise. I’m a stranger, but I’m writing anyway. Not because I can fix what’s broken in your body. But because you’ve spent your career documenting what’s broken in our systems, and I think you’d like to know it can be changed. I have the math, and the application, live and working, to prove it. ...

Can I Take a Second? An Open Letter to Tatiana Schlossberg Dear Ms. Schlossberg, I read with great sorrow your New Yorker piece about your diagnosis and the maybe year you have left. About the medications that might buy you more time, if you can afford them, if your insurance approves them, if the system deems you worthy of another sunrise. I’m a stranger, but I’m writing anyway. Not because I can fix what’s broken in your body. But because you’ve spent your career documenting what’s broken in our systems, and I think you’d like to know it can be changed. I have the math, and the application, live and working, to prove it. ...

Someone Actually Built It An Open Letter to Trebor Scholz Dear Professor Scholz, In 2014, you gave a name to what I’d been trying to articulate: platform cooperativism. You described cloning the technological heart of Uber and Airbnb, but with democratic governance and worker ownership. You outlined the principles. You built the consortium. You’ve spent a decade showing that another model is possible. I spent nine years building one. What You Described, We Constructed Liana Banyan is a platform cooperative spanning commerce, healthcare, and education — with six charitable initiatives permanently funded by three commercial portals. Here’s the structure: ...