Holo Ventures × Kwaxala 🌲 Most investment in nature still treats a forest as an asset only because it can be cut down tomorrow. Kwaxala has flipped that logic right-side up again. It’s an Indigenous majority-owned regenerative forestry network and fund, established by a First Nation in British Columbia and now working globally. Its Living Forest Shares tie investment returns to the forest staying alive, so capital only thrives if the ecosystem does. Capital built to care. We’re collaborating with Kwaxala’s product team to explore how peer-to-peer value and identity tools can serve Indigenous Nations, supporting local self-governance and new ways to coordinate bioregional economies. Why #Holochain? Kwaxala’s model needs both sovereignty and coordination at scale. Control stays with the Nations and communities who nurture the forest. Each participant holds their own data, identity, and connections, and trust is built peer to peer, not handed to a central platform. Relation, not domination, built into the protocol. Unyt adds shared-ledger accounting, so value moves between participants without an intermediary taking a cut. Holo’s distributed infrastructure may follow as the work grows. Early-stage prototyping. More to come. Welcome to the Decent Directory, Kwaxala. 👇 holoventures.io/product/#dec…

Money’s institutions form a reinforcing loop. We live in the curves of its intestines. Same digestion, same recirculation. Programming another metabolism is possible ....... just not the one that already swallowed us.

money could flow like love. (we just have to program it to)

“Have we earned it?” i think the most compelling answer will come from lived experience rather than product metrics. What I'm really looking forward to are pictures, stories, and tangible impacts of you using your own tech in your own community. Who showed up? What happened when people met? Did new friendships form, trust grow, local projects get funded, or people start showing up for each other in new ways? I keep thinking of localism as cultivating social soil: the trust, relationships, reciprocity, and commitments from which a thriving community can grow. The technology can provide the rails, but the real question is whether it helps that social soil become richer and more alive. ... So yes to dogfooding, but even more to dogliving! I'd love to see you actually living this stuff with your neighbors, sharing the awkward moments, surprises, successes, and failures along the way. Maybe that's how we really earn it. When the story becomes less about the app and more about the life growing around it.

As a woman who generally gets approached in annoying ways, HOW you do the approaching matters and is what makes the experience acceptable vs. annoying or creepy. Examples that would work on me: "Nice purse." (When she says thanks tell her you have the same one at home with a straight face so she laughs. If you make a girl laugh your get a 3x charisma modifier for 60 seconds.) "I see you're looking ready to leave, if I offer to grab you another coffee would you want to chat for a few or are you taking off?" (Gives her a graceful out - read safety - respectful, etc) "I see you're reading ___, do you want to know a fun fact about the book?" (Since you probably don't know the book, make one up. When she says "really?" tell her no, but you couldn't think of a good pick up line. Girls like humor, charm, relatability, and admitting you find her hot in a "makes me nervous" kind of way rather than a "I want to fuck you" kind of way) Also, basic understanding of women's experience in public goes a long way. Don't approach in a way she can't easily walk away, ie face to face if possible. Don't block the exit. Women often feel naturally safer if there are other people around when approached, so stepping between her and them can raise her anxiety. You have to understand that these are survival instincts that keep her safe - she doesn't know you and has to be automatically calculating your threat level the second you approach, so being cognizant of that reality can actually up your chances. Pay attention to her body language - not making eye contact, pointing her body away, etc is a sign she's not comfortable. If this happens frequently, it just means you need to improve your approach, which you can either take as a life sentence to be resentful, or toughen up and use it as a learning opportunity. Rejection is part of learning and is just a reflection of that interaction and that person's individual interest, not your ability to be a good partner.