we are what’s next
by Think back to a time about six years ago. Hillary Clinton was in Minnesota. While campaigning for president, she spoke with a voter in a Minneapolis coffeeshop. The voter, Stacey …
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
breaking the walls
Every day we come across stories about how the ultra-wealthy are different from us. Their private jets take them at a moment’s notice to any place they desire. Their mansions …
the right way
I don’t remember a sudden shift in how I felt. I had hardened into a cynic when I was in high school. Those feelings threatened to stay with me into …
not on my watch
In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson created what we now know of as Black History Month. It began as a weeklong celebration of the legacy and contributions of Black people …
precedented times
We are living in precedented times. I know, we’ve all heard the opposite for the past two years. We have a once-in-a-century pandemic raging around the world. People are acting …
being in space
I’m pretty quiet the first time you meet me. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say (a fact you’ll figure out after we meet a few more times). …
lessons from ‘born in flames’
It’s ten years after the revolution in a world that feels like it’s both decades old and present day. Mayor Zubrinsky of New York City calls our country, “the first true socialist democracy the world has ever known.” America leans on exceptionalism to describe itself even in a socialist utopia…
blow up the dam
Out near Port Angeles, Washington, the Elwha river winds through the Olympic peninsula. The river meets the ocean where the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe has lived since time immemorial. More …
finding robert moses
New Yorkers and urban planners will know Robert Moses without thinking. For the rest of us, Robert Moses designed and built public works for decades in the New York metropolitan …