The Durability Economy
Household stability, workforce architecture, and the measurement standard that reorganizes everything else.
Subscribe to the Newsletter → Explore the Blueprint"We have been measuring the wrong thing for fifty years. Change the metric, and the entire system reorganizes around it."
Five Parts. One Verdict.
Each part moves through a complete arc: from the historical diagnosis of what went wrong, to the design of the right measurement system, to an operational playbook that makes the transition irreversible.
The Wrong Bottleneck
Three chapters establishing the diagnosis. The system is optimized for the wrong variable. The metric is the bottleneck; not funding, not individual motivation, not program quality.
The Durability Stack
Four chapters introducing two-generation economics, the Durability Index as targeting system, the $130,000 sufficiency standard, and the full 2Gen architecture. The measurement system built to replace the 90-day illusion.
The Domain Maturation Curve
Two chapters diagnosing where the field sits on the L0 to L5 ladder, and mapping every incentive-design failure that keeps it stuck below L2.
The Twelve Durability Moonshots
Twelve named missions, each with a specific measurable target, a named stakeholder, a theory of spillover, and 90-day and 5-year milestones.
Build the Rails
An operational playbook with role-specific, time-bound actions for policymakers, funders, employers, and program designers, and the closing economic argument that makes durability the only rational investment.
Three Books. One Architecture.
Each book stands alone. Together, they form the most complete argument in the household stability space.
REINVENTION
The system is measuring the wrong thing. This book names the failure and makes the case for reinvention over reentry.
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Lived experience is design authority, not testimony. The epistemological claim that no academic, policy analyst, or AI system can replicate.
Pre-Order Now →The Durability Economy
The full blueprint. The Durability Index. The twelve moonshots. The rails that make household stability an engineering problem with a design solution.
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The Domain Maturation Curve is the reader's GPS. Every program director, funder, and policymaker can locate their organization on this ladder in under sixty seconds and see exactly what moving one level requires.
The Muddle
No consensus on what success means. Competing metrics. No shared data infrastructure.
Most Programs TodayMeasurable, Wrong Target
Programs have adopted recidivism or 90-day employment metrics. Measurement exists, but it measures the wrong thing.
Repeatable
Standard operating procedures exist, but funders pay for activity reports, not verified household outcomes.
Outcome-Procured
Funders pay for verified Durability Index scores. A handful of pilot programs are approaching this level. Target: reach by 2030.
Compute-Aided
Predictive household stability modeling. Real-time data integration across housing, workforce, and supervision systems. Target: reach by 2035.
Solved
Household stability delivered with the reliability of a utility. The $130,000 household income target is the default output, not the exception.
The field is currently fragmented between L0 and L2.
The Durability Economy exists to pull it to L3 within five years.
The Twelve Durability Moonshots
Twelve named missions. Each with a specific measurable target, a named stakeholder, and a theory of spillover. The decision prompts elevated to action briefs.
The Measurement Moonshot
Replace recidivism with the Durability Index as the statutory definition of success in reinvention legislation.
The Employer Moonshot
1,000 employers adopt fair-chance hiring practices tied to Durability Index retention metrics.
The Wage Moonshot
Move the median 18-month wage trajectory to +$8,000 above starting wage in five years.
The Household Moonshot
Redesign program intakes to serve both adults in a household, not only the justice-impacted individual.
The Cyber Pathway Moonshot
Fill 50,000 cybersecurity vacancies annually with justice-impacted talent by 2030.
The Child Care Moonshot
Eliminate the child care math gap as a barrier to fair-chance job retention in the 50 largest metro markets.
The Grant Cycle Moonshot
Convert 500 foundation grant cycles from 12-month to 18-month evaluation windows tied to household outcomes.
The Licensing Moonshot
Remove mandatory occupational license bars in the five highest-wage regulated fields in every state.
The Scheduling Moonshot
Establish predictable-hours standards, eliminating shift-volatility as the leading driver of 90-day turnover.
The Data Infrastructure Moonshot
Build case management systems capable of producing household-level Durability Index scores.
The Governance Moonshot
Seat a justice-impacted majority on the 2Generation Economy Council, giving lived experience design authority.
The Pretrial Moonshot
Move the intervention clock from sentencing to arrest, stabilizing households before conviction disrupts them permanently.
Change the outcomes.
