hello! welcome to my digital garden! 💐

this place is my initial effort to share my findings publicly and continue to openly deepen an inquiry into:

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

a bit more context

for the past 7 years, as an attempt to answer my own pressing existential questions and make sense of the reality we live in, i've been persistently researching themes such as:

• what is my place of unique contribution in the world?
• how can we live in more ethical and regenerative ways?
• is it even possible to create societies that are in service of the flourishing of life?
• what are the main challenges and constraints to moving - individually and collectively - in this direction?

my research led me to be consistently mapping our landscape of ideas, narratives, philosophies, initiatives, practices, approaches, challenges and opportunities in this space, as well as pursuing a few more specific inquiries and experiments into how to create better systems for social coordination and self-actualization.

therefore, you'll find 2 main types of content here:

1. a lot of different perspectives and diagnoses on the metacrisis⁹⁸ - i.e. a way of conceptualizing our historical moment that i find very useful, highlighting the underlying dynamics driving a lot of our personal, social and planetary crises, plus an ongoing mapping of responses⁹⁶ to it.

2. my own reflections, projects and curation in this space: integrating different experiments, prototypes and designs into a theory of change⁹⁸ for what i call the L1F3 support systems⁹⁷ - exploring how emerging initiatives and perspectives from the fields of consciousness development⁹⁸, design⁹⁸, technology⁹⁸, art⁹⁸, regeneration⁹⁸ and games⁹⁷ can inform and guide us towards systemic responses to the metacrisis.

a (clickable) overview of the garden

for clarity: the way i use the terms "games" and "systems" is (often) interchangeable. and the way i refer to technology is broadly as 5 different types: social, analog, digital, ancestral and psychotechnologies. i.e. by technology, i mean a mix of both systems design and technological development in all of these dimensions.

you'll also find loose notes here - exploring different ideas, resources, pathways to create thriving lives and societies, oriented towards supporting the integral development of humans and the flourishing⁹⁷ of the whole, evolving from our dominant ones, so often based on win-lose dynamics and extractivist paradigms that are destroying the planetary systems we depend upon, promoting profound psycho-spiritual alienation⁹⁸ and leading us towards impeding systemic collapse⁹⁶.

*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. "global access" is very unevenly distributed. and while that's true, i'd say that's partial. 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.

❔ 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:

a) a curated set of cornerstone pages which dive deep into the key themes and findings of my research, compiled in this garden.

b) ⛓ a very large relevance-based index of notes, which gives you a sense of most of the topics covered here (below).

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

d) 🗺 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 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/spirituality (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+ relevance, 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.