Impact Stories
Maciej BulandaStories from the intersection of aid, tech, and evaluation — exploring what impact means in practice and why good storytelling is the missing piece in systems change.
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Turning to Embodied Knowledge: Why climate resilience depends on more than algorithms
A few years ago, I experienced burnout and depression—not uncommon in the humanitarian sector, and particularly frequent for neurodivergent folks like me. What pulled me through wasn’t another cognitive strategy or psychoanalysis. It was so...
Rupture and Resilience: Agency over Efficiency
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January 2026 feels different. Systems are cracking wide open—humanitarian triage as policy, digital sovereignty challenging Big Tech, food systems breaching planetary boundaries.
Yet the most generative ideas I’ve...
Adapting to the reality of melting glaciers
It is the COP30 Climate Summit in Belém, Brazil, so it’s only appropriate to bring you a conversation about the climate crisis and specifically, the melting glaciers. 2025 happens to be the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation.
I...
When Digital Money Crosses Closed Borders: Stablecoins in Syria and Afghanistan
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Two countries. Same problem. Different solutions using the same technology.
Syria and Afghanistan have both been locked out of the international financial system—Syria for over a decade due to civil war and sanctions,...
Ethical and Cognitive Storytelling, Destructive Impact of AI, Agency in the Era of AI agents, Web3 Stories
🧠 Signals & Synapses is my attempt to bring you important thoughts, ideas, and voices from different disciplines. It’s also a chance to share my platform and amplify the voices of other storytellers, impact curators, and beautiful minds, w...
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