@learnlocal
@learnlocal.bsky.social
Connecting the community with independent/small business. No chains, national franchises, parent companies, venture capital allowed. The future of business is small.
https://www.learnlocal-app.com/
https://www.learnlocal-app.com/
Inspired by the Doughnut Economics concept, I've rebuilt LearnLocal's fee structure ☮️🌍 @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social
Check it out 👉 www.learnlocal-app.com/list-your-bu...
Check it out 👉 www.learnlocal-app.com/list-your-bu...
October 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Inspired by the Doughnut Economics concept, I've rebuilt LearnLocal's fee structure ☮️🌍 @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social
Check it out 👉 www.learnlocal-app.com/list-your-bu...
Check it out 👉 www.learnlocal-app.com/list-your-bu...
This is the point in the process where I've had enough time to step back and observe what I've built. Next step - SIMPLIFY.
The last thing anyone wants to do is try to figure out how to work this app. www.learnlocal-app.com
#shoplocal #creativeeconomy #smallbusiness
The last thing anyone wants to do is try to figure out how to work this app. www.learnlocal-app.com
#shoplocal #creativeeconomy #smallbusiness
September 30, 2026 at 2:45 PM
This is the point in the process where I've had enough time to step back and observe what I've built. Next step - SIMPLIFY.
The last thing anyone wants to do is try to figure out how to work this app. www.learnlocal-app.com
#shoplocal #creativeeconomy #smallbusiness
The last thing anyone wants to do is try to figure out how to work this app. www.learnlocal-app.com
#shoplocal #creativeeconomy #smallbusiness
🗨️Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
#businessmindset #businesstips #burnoutprevention
#businessmindset #businesstips #burnoutprevention
September 25, 2026 at 3:53 AM
🗨️Oliver Burkeman's Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
#businessmindset #businesstips #burnoutprevention
#businessmindset #businesstips #burnoutprevention
📚 @sethgodin.bsky.social Your books are a staple and have been a HUGE influence in my creative business journey. I listed you in The Underground Market; maybe you'll like what I'm doing and provide a deal for users to unlock 🤞
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
September 21, 2026 at 6:45 PM
📚 @sethgodin.bsky.social Your books are a staple and have been a HUGE influence in my creative business journey. I listed you in The Underground Market; maybe you'll like what I'm doing and provide a deal for users to unlock 🤞
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
As an entrepreneur, I feel called to imagine and promote new ways forward. I just discovered @kateraworth.bsky.social and the idea of Doughnut Economics.
bsky.app/profile/kate...
bsky.app/profile/kate...
Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
September 17, 2026 at 7:06 PM
As an entrepreneur, I feel called to imagine and promote new ways forward. I just discovered @kateraworth.bsky.social and the idea of Doughnut Economics.
bsky.app/profile/kate...
bsky.app/profile/kate...
🧵I wanted to see if there were any employee owned businesses in NC and came across this amazing company
www.opportunitythreads.com/sustainability
www.opportunitythreads.com/sustainability
September 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
🧵I wanted to see if there were any employee owned businesses in NC and came across this amazing company
www.opportunitythreads.com/sustainability
www.opportunitythreads.com/sustainability
The first Labor Day was a union-organized parade in NYC, 1882.
It became federal law in 1894, days after troops crushed the Pullman Strike and killed workers — Congress rushed it through to smooth things over. Even the date was political: picked to intentionally divert attention from May Day
It became federal law in 1894, days after troops crushed the Pullman Strike and killed workers — Congress rushed it through to smooth things over. Even the date was political: picked to intentionally divert attention from May Day
September 6, 2026 at 1:05 AM
The first Labor Day was a union-organized parade in NYC, 1882.
It became federal law in 1894, days after troops crushed the Pullman Strike and killed workers — Congress rushed it through to smooth things over. Even the date was political: picked to intentionally divert attention from May Day
It became federal law in 1894, days after troops crushed the Pullman Strike and killed workers — Congress rushed it through to smooth things over. Even the date was political: picked to intentionally divert attention from May Day
September 4, 2026 at 4:19 AM
👀Peep the Underground Market!!
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
We're now loading the market with Independent Businesses! This market is about to be POPPIN'. Team #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #community
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
We're now loading the market with Independent Businesses! This market is about to be POPPIN'. Team #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #community
August 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM
👀Peep the Underground Market!!
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
We're now loading the market with Independent Businesses! This market is about to be POPPIN'. Team #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #community
www.learnlocal-app.com/underground-...
We're now loading the market with Independent Businesses! This market is about to be POPPIN'. Team #smallbusiness #entrepreneur #community
Scaled economic democracy: Concentrated control is earned while a business is small and risky, but as it scales into real economic power, that power gets shared with the people who built it — proportionally, the way progressive taxation redistributes concentrated wealth. Thoughts? #postcapitalism
August 21, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Scaled economic democracy: Concentrated control is earned while a business is small and risky, but as it scales into real economic power, that power gets shared with the people who built it — proportionally, the way progressive taxation redistributes concentrated wealth. Thoughts? #postcapitalism
🌊Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, has one of the oldest anti-corporate laws in America. It has legally banned all corporate chains, fast-food restaurants, and big box stores.
I've seen it with my own eyes. It's stunning (and EXPENSIVE). The big corps ruin aesthetic, environment, and local culture.
I've seen it with my own eyes. It's stunning (and EXPENSIVE). The big corps ruin aesthetic, environment, and local culture.
August 13, 2026 at 5:01 PM
🌊Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, has one of the oldest anti-corporate laws in America. It has legally banned all corporate chains, fast-food restaurants, and big box stores.
I've seen it with my own eyes. It's stunning (and EXPENSIVE). The big corps ruin aesthetic, environment, and local culture.
I've seen it with my own eyes. It's stunning (and EXPENSIVE). The big corps ruin aesthetic, environment, and local culture.
Shout out to all the small business owners and employees making it happen 🤘 We see you!!
August 13, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Shout out to all the small business owners and employees making it happen 🤘 We see you!!
July 26, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Mission: Scale globally with zero paid social media ads and no venture capital. Can we do it? 🧐
#tech #bootstrap #smallbusiness
#tech #bootstrap #smallbusiness
July 17, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Mission: Scale globally with zero paid social media ads and no venture capital. Can we do it? 🧐
#tech #bootstrap #smallbusiness
#tech #bootstrap #smallbusiness
Support small business. Make an oligarch slightly less comfortable 🤘
#smallbusiness #shoplocal #momnpop
#smallbusiness #shoplocal #momnpop
July 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Support small business. Make an oligarch slightly less comfortable 🤘
#smallbusiness #shoplocal #momnpop
#smallbusiness #shoplocal #momnpop
I hope something really great happens to you today 🍀
July 8, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I hope something really great happens to you today 🍀
Since 1995, small businesses have generated about two-thirds of all net new jobs #smallbusiness #shoplocal
July 7, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Since 1995, small businesses have generated about two-thirds of all net new jobs #smallbusiness #shoplocal
Small businesses are the key drivers for innovation and community resilience 🤘
#community #shoplocal #smallbusiness
#community #shoplocal #smallbusiness
July 5, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Small businesses are the key drivers for innovation and community resilience 🤘
#community #shoplocal #smallbusiness
#community #shoplocal #smallbusiness
July 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Small business makes the cityscape interesting, colorful, and alive. Corporate chains make it fake, and banal, repetitive 🤘
#smallbusiness #shoplocal
#smallbusiness #shoplocal
July 1, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Small business makes the cityscape interesting, colorful, and alive. Corporate chains make it fake, and banal, repetitive 🤘
#smallbusiness #shoplocal
#smallbusiness #shoplocal
Oligopoly / corporatism — a small number of large players effectively setting the terms an entire industry operates under, sometimes in coordination with the state.
#shopsmall #smallbusiness #local
#shopsmall #smallbusiness #local
July 1, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Oligopoly / corporatism — a small number of large players effectively setting the terms an entire industry operates under, sometimes in coordination with the state.
#shopsmall #smallbusiness #local
#shopsmall #smallbusiness #local
🧐WILD!!! 99.9% of U.S. businesses are small. The other 0.1%, about 20,000 companies, pull in a wildly outsized share of where the money ends up. That's not the free market.
#freemarket #smallbusiness #corporatism
#freemarket #smallbusiness #corporatism
June 27, 2026 at 11:39 PM
🧐WILD!!! 99.9% of U.S. businesses are small. The other 0.1%, about 20,000 companies, pull in a wildly outsized share of where the money ends up. That's not the free market.
#freemarket #smallbusiness #corporatism
#freemarket #smallbusiness #corporatism
An Austin study found an independent bookseller and music seller returned three times as much money to the local economy as a proposed Borders outlet would have — and the city used those numbers to kill a planned subsidy for the chain. #democracy #smallbusiness
reclaimdemocracy.org/local-busine...
reclaimdemocracy.org/local-busine...
The Multiplier Effect of Local Independent Business ⋆ Reclaim Democracy!
"Buy local" public education campaigns create more local wealth and jobs. Local self reliance and independent, locally owned businesses go hand-in-hand.
reclaimdemocracy.org
June 24, 2026 at 2:50 PM
An Austin study found an independent bookseller and music seller returned three times as much money to the local economy as a proposed Borders outlet would have — and the city used those numbers to kill a planned subsidy for the chain. #democracy #smallbusiness
reclaimdemocracy.org/local-busine...
reclaimdemocracy.org/local-busine...
You've got a first date this week with a super cool person at a super cool local happening. Don't worry about awkward silence - we got your back 🗝️👇 Quest it. #shoplocal #smallbusiness #startup
June 21, 2026 at 10:34 PM
You've got a first date this week with a super cool person at a super cool local happening. Don't worry about awkward silence - we got your back 🗝️👇 Quest it. #shoplocal #smallbusiness #startup