MARK MULLEN This is my webpage, blog, & newsletters

Here is where I try to make sense of the the world, how we fix and maintain it, how we can best connect and do things with each other. I'm from Dallas, went to Wesleyan in Connecticut, lived in Tokyo, Washington DC, Malawi, Palestine, Albania, Tbilisi, London, San Francisco, and now in Barcelona. Lots of interests, but mainly collective decision making, elections, democracy, communities, startups, social enterprise, and geopolitics. Also swimming, reading on paper, how people get clothes, trains, how information becomes knowledge, and bicycles.


The headings above are the main things I am working on.

Fair Pick is an app that helps groups of people decide on things. Under that heading is where I write about how we are building the app itself, and how we are building it within a new type of social enterprise that is good for the world, and doesn't do the awful things that so many apps do. Join us in trying to figure out how to do that.

Turnout is where I write about what I see as the key problem of US democracy. The problem is that there is an enormous, expensive (and lucrative) focus on winning individual candidate campaigns. The bigger problem is people who don't vote. Turnout Nation, which focuses on "The Captain Method" was a response to that. Here is where I write about what we did, do, and have learned.

Rorshok is the name of an organization set up as an experiment. It is a home for new ideas that bring people together, help us learn, help us think of our world and our lives in new ways, ideas that might not otherwise find a home. We created Ourzines, we do ten minute audio updates about several places and topics, and hope to grow and become independent.

Thoughts is where I write about the world; what is really happening in it and why, what we can do about it, how different parts and trends related to each other in ways that may not be easy to see.


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