Orenda Academy is the educational arm of Orenda Commons. Orenda is an Iroquois word for the force that moves through everything alive, the energy in all natural things. I kept the name because it points at something I'd been circling for years: money, energy, food, land, time, and the way we think are not separate subjects. They're threads of one thing. Pull on one and the rest move.
The Commons is the work that grew out of that idea: a farm, a foundation, and this school. The Academy is where the thinking gets written down and taught. On a course catalog the subjects would sit in different departments, but sound money, regenerative agriculture, sovereignty, history, and philosophy belong together. Honest money and healthy soil run on the same logic, and so does a life you actually own.
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I'm Kyle, the founder. Not an economist, not an academic. I spent a long time trying to find what was actually true in a noisy world, followed the evidence past a lot of comfortable answers, and ended up here: building a farm with my dad, saving in bitcoin, and reading more history and philosophy than I planned to. The Academy is my attempt to pass on what I've found to be signal, so you don't have to start from scratch.
Membership is free. Join and you get The Orenda Letter, the Bitcoin 101 ebook, and access to the library as it fills in: articles, guides, courses, and later, events and seminars. Paid options will come for people who want to go deeper. The free layer stays free.