Resolutions

Three hundred leading actresses, agents, writers, directors, producers and entertainment executives—all women—have resolved to fight systemic sexual harassment in Hollywood and blue-collar workplaces nationwide with a $13 million legal defense fund they’ve raised and a host of organizing initiatives under the banner of Time’s Up.

Loomio co-founder Richard Bartlett is resolved to finding a meaningful alternative to Facebook so he can stop “normalizing a form of public discourse which is optimized for virality, not meaning,” and he thinks he may have found it in Scuttlebutt, a decentralized “secure gossip platform.”

Rep. Rick Crawford (R-AR) is resolved to finding a meaningful alternative to Facebook “that allows elected officials to engage the American people in a civic environment without paid ads and political spending” and he wonders if government should build it.

Mike Monteiro is resolved to get Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to resign for letting a “once-entertaining, once-illuminating, once-vital network to global communication became a garbage fire of hate.”

Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard is resolved to keep making merciless fun of startup culture, in this case the story of the failed $699 doorknob.

Kai Stinchcombe is resolved to prove convincingly to you that ten years in, no one has yet to make a case for using the blockchain for anything.

Vu Le is resolved to keeping his readers laughing about the drudgeries and paradoxes of life in the nonprofit sector.

Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, and its office of civic engagement and volunteer service, is resolved to getting its residents to pledge 100,000 hours of volunteer service in 2018.

What are you resolved to do this year? It could be the most important one of our lives.