looking future 2024
by At the end of every year, I think to myself, “wow, this was a pretty good year for be the future!” I took more time off from writing this year …
josh
my name is josh martinez. i have always loved trying to understand systems, and the systems that built those systems. i spend a lot of time thinking about how to get there from here.
i'm the founder and a consultant at Future Emergent.
say hello: josh@bethefuture.space
i'm the founder and a consultant at Future Emergent.
say hello: josh@bethefuture.space
playing favorites 2024
This is the annual list of my five favorite books—a once-ambitious number that now feels super low. I read a lot this year and left many books unread on the …
not my business
I joined the GSBA in 2022, the year I started my company. The GSBA is Washington state’s LGBTQ+ business association. They formed to fight workplace discrimination of LGBTQ+ community members …
things to read: november
Hi folks, I’m taking the week off! No new essay this week. Instead, here are a few things I read recently that I enjoyed a lot. The Unspoken Complexity of …
trust in community
I’ve been thinking about how trust functions in society. Working with community as a nonprofit is often an exercise in trust. Some of the organizations I see around me operate …
beyond self-care
It’s only been 10 days since perhaps the last presidential election of my life. Kidding! Oof, it’s been a rough one. Lots of people are still reeling from last week’s …
frogs in water
I’m writing this in the days after the election, processing it with more dismay than shock. The outcome felt inevitable for months but I held a small hope that voters …
owner and CEO
I drew knowledge from a lot of folks before I started my own business. These conversations helped me feel like this undertaking was possible at a time when I had …
the limits of pragmatism
This post is not about the election. Organizations, for- and nonprofit alike, are averse to risk. Humans have self-preservation on the brain and our organizations are extensions of ourselves. This …
just asking questions
People underestimate how much other people think like they do. As a person who creates things, one of the scariest questions I can ask someone is, “so… what did you …