Surfacing and connecting

I have tried so many times a variety of todo lists and methodologies, from Getting Things Done to Bullet Journals. Where I’m at now is a shelf full of A5 dotted journals, using Lunatask as a digital bin and a headful of threads.

Yesterday I was at the launch of the Public Map Platform, which was incredibly useful for the Community Enterprise Agroforestry project I’m working on, and I was doodling and scribbling away. Not random thoughts exactly, more tangential, and I keep wanting to add them to a blog, with a minimal explanation, possibly with a hashtag, because it’ll be interesting to see how the ideas could surface and reconnect over time. Like a subconscious intellectual patina. So, here goes, “Write summary yesterday’s ideas”:

• It is #time
• Things #change
• A target #audience of one - focussed on delivering for specific people at specific times
• Who does it serve? - the 3 ‘rules’ of #gardening
  1. Who does it serve?
  2. Where does the water go
  3. Who #cares? #care #management #maintenance
• It isn’t #real - Around 1993, I went to watch The Word live in a #TV studio, on a coach, Bristol to London, and the audience was herded around like cattle, and there was no “vibe”, it was all manufactured and formulaic, and I was disappointed (my Friday night entertainment when I was trapped at home post-uni) and relieved.
• Can you have #equality and #hierarchy?
• #CapabilityApproach ↗ as a framework for decision making?
• #CommunityEngagement and #CountyFarm - people have to do the work
• Ping pong of ideas, bouncing from one to the other. #gloss as opposed to deep thinking
• Critical thinking and Professor Freeman - at UCL I wrote for the student magazine and I glibly asked about his opinion on an article and he emphasised the need to research and think critically
• #TV is shit, I have to make my own entertainment - I started watching an old TV series and I found it really cliched, and I felt that I ought to make my own entertainment, with my own characters. The kids are using Snapchat filters (demons and gods and goblins) and I thought it would be fun to do a solo mini-drama using the filters to create the characters.
• “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” - where is this #quote from? #feminism? Audre Lorde, 1979 #intersectional
• Othered #other
• Consent, always consent
• #feminism is for everybody - quote seen on #Mastodon
• #hierachy, #patriarchy and #domination