Random ideas

I have lots of random yet related ideas. I never really know what to do with them, so I thought I‘d start a list. In no particular order (apart from the date, which is some sort of order):

  • Mon 8 Sep 2025
    • Capitalism is inherently undemocratic (h/t Jason Hickel)
    • My next project is all about Ecology, Education & Agroforestry
    • How useful is hierarchy? Why hierarchy rather than organisation? Can you enforce flat level organisation?
  • Mon 25 Aug 2025
    • Book idea. Degrowth: a manual
  • Sat 23 Aug 2025
    • If you are poor, there is less margin for error
  • Thu 21 Aug 2025
    • Industrial technological colonialism. Is colonialism practised around world across the ages different, only distinguished by advances in technology, and we just happen to have landed on western colonialism
  • Fri 8 Aug 2025
    • Who has the authority?
    • Authority as systemised power
    • A visceral morality?
  • Thu 7 Aug 2025
    • What even is development? Discussion with health worker from Swansea about money spent on student accommodation and not much else. Targetted development. HTML analogy: all frameworks deliver is simple HTML. Gardening analogy: plants in the ground.