A philopreneur is philosophy meeting decentralization: someone who, working with others, conceives and builds alternative social systems by futuring, the science fiction part, and solving, the detective story part. If the party intellectual is philosophy plus centralization, the philopreneur is the other thing.
How the word moved
The Epistry synthesis traces the idea back to Startup Thinking in August 2019. I named it in April 2023 in Midwifing a Better World, as Socratus' theory of change. Philosopher-entrepreneur sounds like a LinkedIn bio, I know.
In my words
"If the party intellectual is “philosophy + centralization,” the philopreneur is philosophy meets decentralization."
from Midwifing a Better World, Part 1, 10 Apr 2023
Related
- Inherited from Marx - his thought, party and power is the old theory of change I'm replacing.
- Related Forestree - problems that need both a product and a policy.
- Related Design of Philosophy - I reused a passage from it.