hello! welcome to my digital garden! 🌷

for the past 6 years, i've been researching the complexity of the times we're living - our landscape of challenges and opportunities, asking how to live in more ethical and regenerative ways, as well as how to create better systems for self-actualization and social coordination.

this place is my public compilation (research garden) aiming to share my findings and continue to deepen the inquiry into:

how can we create systems that better support us in playing, coordinating and collaborating towards more sacred & regenerative presents?

you'll find 2 main types of content here:

1. my open research & diagnosis on the metacrisis - i.e. our unique civilizational moment, which carries the seeds of potential for a profound systemic transformation and a human phase shift into radically wiser, weller societies - as well as a set of completely novel, escalating systemic risks and interconnected crises that continue to unravel as a consequence of our persistent coordination failures as the first truly global society in the history of human civilizations*.

2. my own projects, curation and theory of change (under development): experiments, prototypes and designs integrating these perspectives into the L1F3 support systems and their propositions, exploring how consciousness development, design, technology, art, regeneration and games can be systemic responses to the metacrisis.

these propositions/designs are presented in and can be applied at 4 different levels: #personal, #local, #regional, #global.

you'll also find loose notes - exploring different ideas, resources, pathways to create thriving lives and societies, oriented towards supporting the integral development of humans and the flourishing of the whole, evolving from our dominant ones, based on win-lose dynamics and extractivist paradigms that are destroying the planetary systems we depend upon, promoting profound psycho-spiritual alienation and leading us towards impeding systemic collapse.

*one might make the case that we're not really a global society, since there are still some uncontacted tribes and communities that don't have access to much of our global infrastructure, such as media and the internet, however, we're already deeply globalized not just in terms of supply chains but also in terms of risks. any country with access to nuclear weapons, plus the acceleration of AI, ecological crises, biotechnology, and a series of other growing risks have the potential to harm the planet in ways that are consequential or even catastrophic for all of humanity and other species on earth.

*ps: this website is not currently optimized for mobile view, if something looks weird on your phone, select "use desktop version" on your browser settings to better visualize some elements, such as images and tables.

a visual overview

these are the main themes covered here.

for clarity: the way i use the terms "games" and "systems" is (often) interchangeable. and the way i refer to technology is broadly as: social, analog, digital and ancestral technologies - a mix of both systems design and technological development.

navigate at whatever level makes sense for you. we'll cover:

• deep analyses of the metacrisis, exploring references from different worldviews on navigating our crises and reality itself,
• analyses of the deeper philosophical underpinnings of these perspectives, such as integral meta-theory, cosmoerotic humanism, decolonial theory, metarelationality and metamodernism,
• the different theories of change emerging out of these bodies of work,
• design approaches that can be applied at different levels of depth towards systems transformation and the design of new systems, and finally:
• maps, examples and opportunities of initiatives, projects and tools across these different domains (consciousness, art, technology, regeneration, systems/games) putting all of this into practice.

❔ how to navigate this space

just click anywhere that draws your attention and follow your curiosity. if you want a bit more directed navigation, here are a few more options:

there are 3 major ways to navigate this space:

a) ⛓ a relevance-based index of notes (below)

b) 🕸 a loose, experimental, self-directed navigation based on tags & patterns (early stage!)

c) 🗺 a structured, organized, narrative way, in which i share the foundational concepts, references, tools and discoveries of my research/learning/work (still very early stage!)

go ahead and choose your path!

a) ⛓ a relevance-based index of notes

below is an index with almost all of my published notes ranked by (my own biased) "relevance score" (90+), which should give you a good overview of both what this place is all about and some of my main references. :)

so far most of my well-tended notes are on the topics/archetypes of (systems) design and technology (below as: lab), so please note that the index below is missing a ton of stuff from consciousness (below as: alchemy), art, regen and player, that are less developed.

also, what's relevant for me may not be relevant for you. this gives a very big picture/overarching view of everything that i consider 90+, so you can find synergies across our interests, references and fields of study/practice.

for more notes (90-, yet possibly relevant), see the full: relevance score page.

additional information

how do I make my own garden?

i edit this using obsidian, a note-taking software that i use for my second brain. you can start using the app by downloading it for free at obsidian.md. there are many tutorials and possible advanced setups, but for starters, i recommend nick milo's "obsidian for beginners" youtube series and his LYT obsidian toolkit.

to host my notes, i use the obsidian digital garden plugin . it requires some technical setup, but it's quite easy to do even if you're a non-technical person. but you can also pay for obsidian publish for a simpler setup.

how can i be in the loop for new content/updates on these projects?

sign up for my newsletter. also, if you want to be even more 'in the know', one possibility is to join a whatsapp group i created, in which i only occasionally share updates and exchange with a small group of friends. i'm leaving it open for new co-conspirators as well right now, as a way to approximate our relationship if you really feel the resonance. ❤ ask me about it on telegram.