- Read: Degrowth, green energy, social equity, and circular economy
- Read: Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech
- Finally built my little electro synth kit today.
- (It was a Christmas present last year…)
- It was loads of fun to do.
- Great soldering practice for a soldering newbie.
- Lots of different components to solder together in various different ways.
- The Pinecil worked great.
- Putting together the EIGHT Electro Synth
Author: Neil Mather
- Read: Neither Vertical Nor Horizontal
- Picked it up again after a while.
- Listened: The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times
- As I believe it has some discussion on social movement theory.
- Also led me to discover New Books in Critical Theory.
- Well-connected.
- Snow. Lots of snow.
- I fixed a long-standing bug on my site where backlinks often didn’t work.
- I also fixed up the backlinks section for each node to only include backlinking nodes once.
- Social movement theory.
- I saw Gordon Brander has a list of well-connected nodes in his pattern library.
- I like the idea. Stats relating to links and connections feels more in line with a relational ontology than just having counts of nodes, etc.
- So I’ve been looking at adding a list of nodes in my garden that are well-connected.
- I’d like to know why the outputs of my little bits of executable code blocks aren’t getting correctly generated when my garden gets published to the web.
- Digging: Proem – She Never Cries
- Digging: Frog Pocket – Hurrah Sapphire Moon!
- Listened: A blast in Manhattan
- First episode of The Santiago Boys.
- Really well made.
- This first episode covers a lot of the geopolitics and general shittery of the CIA and corporations in South America.
- Read: Doughnut Economics
- Listened: Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures
- Really interesting discussion. Lots of quotable moments (but I was listening while doing yard work so didn’t jot them down).
- Philanthropy.
- Theory of change. Margaret Wheatley and the Two Loop Model.
- Some discussion on hope in a troubled world. I liked the definition of hope described, I’ll need to go back and pick that out.
- Also a mention of the New Constellations project, which I had forgotten, did something in Barrow a few years back.
- Read: The great carbon divide
- Carbon inequality and wealth inequality.
- “the richest 1% of the population produced as much carbon pollution in one year as the 5 billion people who make up the poorest two-thirds”
- Listened: Movement and Stillness
- Read: Doughnut Economics
- Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.
- I imagine most people aren’t that interested to see them.
- But, I do like the fact that they stimulate me to publish to the garden even on days where outside of work I have little time for it.
- And I find them a helpful piece of reflection.
- So I think I’ll experiment with putting them off in links from the main journal post. So people can read them if they want, but they won’t be right up in your face with visual noise.