Joyce Brand returns to talk about the progress of Free Cities!

One of your other ongoing projects is the ongoing Substack series that you put out on governance systems.

And I absolutely love this series.

I look forward to it.

I read it as soon as I get it in my inbox because I want to see what Joyce has to say about the next step or the next chapter in this.

For the folks, it is a framework of how governance systems works, but typically she will pick out the particular city in the world somewhere that represents one of the themes that she wants to convey in that particular chapter of the whole.

And you've already covered, I'm gonna count them here, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13 cities, if I'm counting correctly so far, that represent a different aspect of things.

Could you talk a little bit about?

Well, I wanted to, with the series, I wanted to start with cities that do something right, cities that are successful because of various reasons, because there are so many different aspects of governance.

that you can do right or wrong.

And even cities that are doing some things wrong, they're doing other things right.

And that's what I was looking for, the lessons from the cities that are working and that we can learn from.

I do intend going forward to soon finish the positive lessons and switch to some of the things that go wrong with cities that we can see where a contrast of where bad governance has a different effect.

So look forward to the rest of my series.

One of the things that they did very recently, in fact, it was after the most previous one, I think, was I thought, all right, she's got a good dozen example cities in there and each one covers a different sort of sub-topic.

of governance.

And I thought, let me put that together and see if I see a framework there or a general overarching principle.

And I kind of found it.

And I wonder how this aligns with your picture of it.

I think the center of all of it, the through line is competition.

All of these cities, including, by the way, any free city like Prosper or whatever, are encouraging competition.

Competition is the root of it.

There is an exclusion.

If there's competition, then that means that you have any number of a variety of entities, people, businesses, whoever, who are going to buy to, you know, for the business or whatever it may be in that region.

The competition incentivizes dependable infrastructure and that leads to some of the details of infrastructure that we see in the city example, like adaptability, stability, openness, public visibility, simplicity, neutrality, tolerance, things like that.

All those things merge out of the competition as infrastructural pieces.

One of your other ongoing projects is the ongoing Substack series that you put out on governance systems.

And I absolutely love this series.

I look forward to it.

I read it as soon as I get it in my inbox because I want to see what Joyce has to say about the next step or the next chapter in this.

For the folks, it is a framework of how governance systems works, but typically she will pick out the particular city in the world somewhere that represents one of the themes that she wants to convey in that particular chapter of the whole.

And you've already covered, I'm gonna count them here, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 13 cities, if I'm counting correctly so far, that represent a different aspect of things.

Could you talk a little bit about?

Well, I wanted to, with the series, I wanted to start with cities that do something right, cities that are successful because of various reasons, because there are so many different aspects of governance.

that you can do right or wrong.

And even cities that are doing some things wrong, they're doing other things right.

And that's what I was looking for, the lessons from the cities that are working and that we can learn from.

I do intend going forward to soon finish the positive lessons and switch to some of the things that go wrong with cities that we can see where a contrast of where bad governance has a different effect.

So look forward to the rest of my series.

One of the things that they did very recently, in fact, it was after the most previous one, I think, was I thought, all right, she's got a good dozen example cities in there and each one covers a different sort of sub-topic.

of governance.

And I thought, let me put that together and see if I see a framework there or a general overarching principle.

And I kind of found it.

And I wonder how this aligns with your picture of it.

I think the center of all of it, the through line is competition.

All of these cities, including, by the way, any free city like Prosper or whatever, are encouraging competition.

Competition is the root of it.

There is an exclusion.

If there's competition, then that means that you have any number of a variety of entities, people, businesses, whoever, who are going to buy to, you know, for the business or whatever it may be in that region.

The competition incentivizes dependable infrastructure and that leads to some of the details of infrastructure that we see in the city example, like adaptability, stability, openness, public visibility, simplicity, neutrality, tolerance, things like that.

All those things merge out of the competition as infrastructural pieces.