Opportunistic resilience.
Resilience is readiness for a range of possibilities. Not just for stress and stochasticity, but also opportunity and serendipity. Not just for surviving drought, but for thriving the instant that rain falls.
Are you ready to flower suddenly?
Normally, the Atacama Desert in Chile, receives less than 12 mm of rain a year. However in the years when rainfall is unusually high, between September and November, this can happen. It's called «desierto florido»
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the crew of rando’s that is @dot_basin has finally cracked the code - it only took three years on the back of numerous careers, phd’s, Masters, and thousands of Individual contributions and input - now time to put it into practice
Going back through a paper from grad school that forever influenced my philosophy. The call for a strong civic environmentalism to replace the paradigm of conservation environmentalism seems especially pertinent today.
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“The sedimentation of stories transform interchangeable spaces into A PLACE, drenched with a particular history and signified concretely through sensory forms that evoke, provoke and intensify thought, but always exceed and evade it.”
“To neglect the geographies of childhood is to misunderstand the roots of human creativity.”
“Our existence is fundamentally an existence in and through place.”
AI could eliminate half the jobs. I think it sounds fantastic. Jobs are a scam. A “job”is not “work”, although we usually use those terms synonymously. A job is a human capital debt instrument that exists for the sole purpose of generating income for an employer.
Sleep on that.