Jax @ Gen2200

36. Short-term thinking and the cost of not imagining Are you in a short term fugg? Let's see if you can stretch a little out of it

🌀 NEW POST: The Moral Weight of Imagination

What kind of ancestor are you becoming?

This issue takes a look at short-termism and how we can resist it.

#Gen2200 #LongTermThinking #ShortTermism #Futures #Imagination #Systems #Ethics #Legacy #RegenerativePractice
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Frost isn’t just frost. It’s part of a system.
This reflection starts with a frosty morning in Canberra—but ends up somewhere much bigger.
On systems, survival, and finding the spaces we can thrive in—slowly, carefully, on our own terms. ❄️
Best, Jax
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Ever thought about a fridge as a living system? Me neither—until I did. Turns out, it’s a perfect metaphor for how our environments shape us. 🌱
Plus, a special offer to map your living systems with me.
shorturl.at/MOrte

#RegenerativeDesign #SystemsThinking #Cybernetics #Gen2200 #LivingSystems"**

Car-free green corridor connecting Cooks River to Sydney Harbour to open in 2025 Local mayor says inner west GreenWay and new Metro line will be ‘truly transformative’, getting people out of cars on to bikes, scooters and walking * Full federal election results: live Australian Senate seat count * See our full coverage of the Australian election * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A 6km bicycle and pedestrian path that will run along a 100-year-old rail corridor and connect two of Sydney’s most popular waterside walks is set to open later this year. The Minns government said on Friday that the GreenWay – stretching north from the Cooks River in Earlwood through the inner west to the Bay Run on Parramatta River at Iron Cove – was 80% complete. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

Car-free green corridor connecting Cooks River to Sydney Harbour to open in 2025

30. Leaving the tracks 🌍 Trusting the quieter orbits that pull us into deeper life

🌿 New reflection: On orbiting true — trusting the quiet pull of change, even when old structures fall away. For those already tending real work, real worlds.
Read here → shorturl.at/DBx5a
Please press ❤️ if you like, share even, and subscribe if you’d like more! This means more than you can imagine.

🌼 Ever seen a digger driver wave at a toddler? It’s more than cute — it’s a glimpse of a living system in motion. I wrote about that, and some other things. Full moon edition’s just out 🌕 shorturl.at/5apZi

Thank you @drkathyallen.bsky.social. I’ve been mix'n'matching all sorts of regenerative ideas (including many I’ve learned from you—and from nature), and working out loud through experiments. I’m chuffed this living systems map stood out to you, and I hope it sparks fresh ideas for your readers too.

Thanks Peter. Have followed you there.

Thank you @brexitrage.bsky.social ! 😊

Nature has survived and flourished for billions of years through principles and systems that protect all parts of the whole.

When we stray from these roots, we suffer from imbalance and inequity across our organizations and our societies. Poverty is a symptom of unnatural leadership.

🌱 Counting the Rings...Seasons, Systems and Slow Tech How we learn, design for futures, and what AI has to do with a Canberra autumn, a cold cottage and a systems map I’ve just made.

✨ New Substack!✨
Bumper issue— learning, AI, living systems.
Canberra autumn 🍂, AI caused facilitation frictions 🤖, mapping, and meaning and more.
Includes:
🌀 My draft Gen2200 system map
🌱 Reflections on retrofitting, imagination & intergenerational learning
Read here → shorturl.at/oh2VS

Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.)

chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

What a great list, @peterkaminski.wiki! Thanks for sharing!

A weathered red vending machine with large, expressive eyes stands alone beside a leaning power pole in a dry, grassy field under a bright blue sky. Its surface is covered in stickers, evoking a sense of curiosity, nostalgia, and abandoned technology waiting to be reimagined. Overlaid text reads: “27. Cyborgs, Futures, and the Machine that Helps Us Imagine – Building a Cyber-Physical System to Help Us Think Like Futurists.”

🚀 A Machine To Help Us Imagine

This issue: a Future Option Generator: a cyber-physical system that thinks 200 years ahead, then works back to now. 🔮at shorturl.at/4RE9F

#FutureThinking #Cybernetics #ImaginationAndTechnology #Gen2200

& Thanks bsky.app/profile/pixe... for MidJourney tuition )

A stylized, surreal artwork featuring a humanoid figure with a round, metallic-looking face, dark hollow eyes, and a tall headdress made of sharp, red-brown leaves. The figure is dressed in a patchwork-style outfit with earthy tones, holding two thin wires with abstract, geometric shapes attached at the ends. The background is muted beige with subtle textures. Overlaid on the image is the article title: ‘26. I’d Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess – Reflections on A Cyborg Manifesto for IWD 2025.’ Below it, a short excerpt from the article begins, and at the bottom, the Substack URL ‘JAXNIC.SUBSTACK.COM’ is displayed.

🚀 New on Toward Gen2200

“I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.”

Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto shaped my ideas on tech, identity and power. Re-reading today—International Women’s Day—it is right for our time. AI, labour and the fight for imagination. 🌿🤖
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What do Bindi Erwin and I have in common?
📖 We’re both in the Big Issue.
💬 This one’s for #InternationalWomensDay.
🍇 Mine’s on wild plums and jam.

📰 Find a vendor. Grab a copy.
Real stories. Real people.
#TheBigIssue #PublicFood #RegenerativeFutures
thebigissue.org.au/issue/bindi-...

24. Here, queer, and not going anywhere At six years old, I left a love note under my mother’s pillow. It was for a "sissy" boy at school I liked. I thought I was straight. Read on for why I’m updating my pronouns

Queer, Here and Not Going Anywhere

At 6, I left a love note under my mother’s pillow. It was for a boy. I thought I was straight.

Fast forward through queer 90s Sydney—Mardi Gras, activism, HIV/AIDS, drag, chosen family—to now, late 50s, updating my pronouns. We need visibility more than ever.

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That would read "Flyers" if I could edit this for the Australians here. ;-)

Hey Bluesky fliers, I write a weekly newsletter about how we can shape a better future with small, intentional actions. 🌟 Also you can subscribe for free for 7 days and access backstory. Currently exploring how even the smallest of actions can ripple forward. 🌍
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Hmmm yes I just saw that. So good point. Probs just different.

First post, Blue Sky style: What's a social media world without algorithms? I can hardly remember. Is it better—or just different?