Old Growth Guy
oldgrowthguy.bsky.social
Old Growth Guy
@oldgrowthguy.bsky.social
I build local internet infrastructure and I'm passionate about cooperative ownership and democratic control of the economy - I will insist that these two things go together

https://og.coop

ogcoop.substack.com

https://fbfiber.net
Part 2 of Old Growth @ WPKZ 105.3 FM in Fitchburg

#economicdemocracy #co-op #new #business
January 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Part 1 of Old Growth @ WPKZ 105.3 FM in Fitchburg

#economicdemocracy #co-op #new #business
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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August 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Great episode! Having worked on one for almost 5 years, I’m a big proponent of grassroots internet projects as amazing ways to build community and infrastructure. I’d love to talk about it sometime if you’d want to do a deeper dive into community internet infra
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’ve always understood it to be a case in point, a reference which demonstrates what is being said
August 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
To clarify, I and OGI are not part of this episode. Just sharing because I’m glad others are talking about it.
August 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Well, this sucks:

www.theverge.com/news/757538/...

@edzitron.com has produced a great body of context for this, so if you’re not familiar with the problem or his work, check him out
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Thanks to @andrewsage.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for the new It Could Happen Here episode today, and stay tuned later this week for more from the Old Growth Initiative later this week.

open.spotify.com/episode/2b9Z...
Infrastructure as Control feat. Andrew
It Could Happen Here Ā· Episode
open.spotify.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
In the follow-up, I will introduce the framework of a ā€œpeople’s corporationā€ as a means of mass direct action to take the fight to the corporations at their level.
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I’m excited to see prominent figures on the left discussing the importance of infrastructure and its role in social control by global capital over the last couple days. Last week I began publishing about this at open.substack.com/pub/oldgrowt..., and I’m writing a followup to my first article
The Old Growth Initiative | Substack
We can never be truly free until we can communicate freely | Builders of community-owned communications infrastructure. Click to read The Old Growth Initiative, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days...
open.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/t...

When the state fails, the people don’t have to. The Old Growth Initiative is a call for the people to engage in direct action to build equitable, democratically-owned and -overseen infrastructure.
August 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I've transcribed the 1915 memoir of Eliot J. Caldwell, covering his experience in 1880 starting the Fitchburg Telephone Exchange Company. After 1880, Fitchburg had no independent communications service until 2020.

@fitchhistsocy.bsky.social

oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/erly-telef...
Erly Telefony in Fitchburg
By Eliot L. Caldwell, co-founder of the first Telephone Exchange Company in Fitchburg, Massachusetts
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In this Substack article, I introduce the Old Growth Initiative, a project to build a new generation of democratically-owned and -operated internet infrastructure to facilitate a healthier society. Thanks for checking it out!

oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com/p/you-wouldn...

@edzitron.com
You Wouldn't Download a Tree
An infrastructure-based, democratic project for a healthier society
oldgrowthinitiative.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM