Della Rucker – Medium

Apr 13

Don’t settle if you can help it, don’t do it alone: my interview with One Source Direct

B2B platform and Trep House supplier One Source Direct just published an interview with me. My own answers to some of the questions surprised me; perhaps they will too. 1) How and why did you become an entrepreneur? Was it something you always intended for yourself? I grew up in…

Entrepreneurship

5 min read

Don’t settle if you can help it, don’t do it alone: my interview with One Source Direct

Mar 10

Add your local library to your economic development services

This is brilliant. Economic development organizations often struggle to make an impact on micro-businesses, especially disadvantaged businesses and those in minority communities. …

Libraries

3 min read

Add your local library to your economic development services

Mar 9

To Pay or not to pay? Dilemnas in public engagement

I have mixed feelings about this article, which summarizes several communities’ use of financial incentives to encourage people to participate in public feedback. We have created some very deep barriers to meaningful public engagement, and digging out of that hole is no small task. On the pragmatic level, I have…

Public

3 min read

Mar 8

Coming Soon: Fixing Job Descriptions: a new role for Economic Development?

This article gives us an interesting window into the contradictions that come with this moment of transition from Industrial to Fusion economy. Claims that degrees could become useless aren’t new — portfolio-based assessment was a big deal in my ca. 1990 education degree program, and 20 year old Della would…

Workforce Development

3 min read

Coming Soon: Fixing Job Descriptions: a new role for Economic Development?

Feb 7

Do now: how to learn what you don’t know.

This is a selection from Future Here Now, a newsletter produced by the Wise Economy Workshop/ Wise Fool Press. Every Future Here Now has three sections: Coming Soon, on emerging ideas and technologies that will impact you sooner than you think, Local Learnings, on issues other communities are facing and…

Insights

2 min read

Do now: how to learn what you don’t know.

Feb 3

Coming Soon: New observations on life as an adult, and what that means for communities

This is a selection from Future Here Now, a newsletter produced by the Wise Economy Workshop/ Wise Fool Press. For a weekly supply of information that helps you prepare for the Fusion Economy in the place you care about, plus other benefits, subscribe to Future Here Now. …

Future

3 min read