GM I find that when the somethings stack up too high, the paralysis sets it and the void of nothing yawns open, ready to devour. But then when you find the balance point - the ecotone between everything and nothing - that's when the eye of the needle can be threaded. The mystery awaiting you if you follow the middle path. Just keep walking.

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Ya know, with the fact that nostr is #nodelete land, the ability to preview a post would be nice. Make sure your reposted notes, link previews, and whatever else you're trying to share is actually gonna look like you're hoping it will. #nostrdesign #asknostr

"The recognition of whether you are consensually giving your attention to something is at the root of the topic of SOVEREIGNTY. You are a sovereign being when you take back control of to whom and what you are giving your attention. Once it is back within your domain, you set the rules, you determine where and how it flows. The quality of it, the depth, the power of it. And once you have taken it back, "the Kraken" that feeds off of what was being stolen from you no longer wields such power."

Yakihonne

3. Where Attention Goes... (G1)

The First Geometry is that of attention or any unit of ONE. By focusing our attention, we begin the process of taking back our sovereignty and buil...

Can we stop counting followers and start focusing on quality of connections? #weboftrust #my150 #nostrdesign

Ecosystem Equilibrium Nature (and everything else) is in a constant state of seeking equilibrium. We live in a universe of cycles. Day and night, seasons, emotions, life, death, rebirth. We as individuals are our own microcosms, each with a different climate, terrain, soil, and weather. When two of these different ecological communities meet, this transition is called an "ecotone". This overlapping area is the most diverse and critical space because it creates a bridge between two different zones. People are no different. The ecotones between us as individuals is the Social Soil we get to cultivate in our 1-1 relationships. And the ecotones we create between communities is ultimately what link us all together through our interconnecting relational circles. Every time you engage in a conversation with someone, you have the opportunity to build that Social Soil, or degenerate it. How you choose to show up, water it, tend it, give it your utmost attention. These are all the tools we have to create healthy, abundant, and thriving social ecosystems. We can truly only give our fullest attention and care to roughly 150 relationships. Much more beyond that and the quality of our social soil starts to decay as the system is stretched too thin. Nurture what is in your immediate circle. That doesn't always have to be physical proximity, since technology has allowed our 150 to now span the globe. But start to look at who you would consider to be in your circles of 150 and deepen your focus on those relationships until they thrive and creates more abundance around you too. This is the way to create ecosystem equilibrium in your own microcosm within the macrocosm. #socialsoil #my150 #ecosystemequilibrium #regenag #farmstr #nostrdesign #plebs #relationships #love #sovereignty

GN

GM! Sharing some Sharpie art pulled from the swirling mess of my mind. Can one of you amazing AI artists turn this digital?! #art #artstr #ink #color #gm #trippy

Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny came to Yellow Barn today 🐇🍫🥚 me and my 6 year old egg-hunting partner absolutely crushed the hunt with 29 eggs collected. #dontmesswiththebest Wishing you all a spring filled with color and sweetness!

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Social Soil has been the core concept guiding the social design at Yellow Barn. Observing land stewardship in regenerative agriculture informed much of this concept: even the most barren, compacted, dessicated land could be remediated into fertile soil. Regenerated soil is incredibly resilient. Relationships are the same: the need for deep roots of trust, processes for composting emotions, mycelial networks to move resource, fair and reciprocal exchanges of attention. Once established, they are able to withstand even the most brutal elements: Torrential storms of grief, wildfires of rage, gusty winds of change. Because we did the work to create layers and layers of healthy social soil. And once that layer is built, the seeds of ideas, hopes and dreams can truly flourish into life. Things like money become tools to move energy - the current-you-can-see of currency - and just as water in a garden, it can be mindfully allocated in the quantity, frequency, and location most needed at that time. It's always good to have your ponds to store water but once full, you don't need any more. It's better served downstream. Take only what you need. This is the essence what Indigenous wisedom teaches us with the Honorable Harvest. And if our technology and money can match that Ethos...well, then we're creating a whole new game. To be continued... #mycelium #socialdesign #regenag #rulesnotrulers #bitcoin #regenag #socialsoil #fortheplebs #sovereignty

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It seems like the Fibonacci sequence gives indicators of graduating levels of coherent stability - stacking nodes in geometric form for structural ...

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It seems like the Fibonacci sequence gives indicators of graduating levels of coherent stability - stacking nodes in geometric form for structural integrity. With people, the variables are not only innumerable but also dynamically responsive (environment, situational, culural influences, social ties etc) that creating stability at increasing levels of geometric complexity is quite challenging. Hence the creation of rigid (most often hierarchical) organizational structures, contracts, laws, regulations etc - particularly as we have fragmented our micro-nodal communities into wide-spread low/no-trust societies. There IS a need for hierarchy - but it is not infinite vertical height. It's dynamic hierarchy that stretches horizontally and follows the 80/20 Pareto Principle. Leadership dynamically shifts to the most qualified person for that specific project/task, and instead of a comand-and-order model we shift to an advice-seeking model for optimal decision-making by the Lead in that domain. In our community ecosystem, we use nomenclature that points towards growth vs dominance - a Tree is a Lead (the "responsibiliteur" making the decisions within their Domain), the Core Team members are made up of Saplings, Sprouts and Seedlings, who are all learning how to take responsibility under the guidance and shelter of a Tree. People - and groups of people - are ecosystems. Trees can't function without the Saplings, Sprouts and Seedlings (and all the other flora, fauna and fungi). It is symbiotic and no one is consider "superior" or "inferior", they just have different roles and responsibilities. And this is the beginning of creating our Social Soil - the fertile foundation needed to allow humans, relationships, and communities to thrive. To be continued... #fibonnaci #geometry #socialsoil #nature #people #farmstr #mycelial #fractals

Leadership is over-glorfied. A leader without a First Follower is just a lone nut dancing on top of a hill by themselves. You have probably seen this video. It's a great example of how any human ecosystem develops. And if you closely count the number of people as they are added, you might begin to see a familiar pattern.... 1...2....3....5....8.... The First Follower creates the first level of stability. A polarity to the Lone Nut so that a first level of equilibrium is even possible to be created. Only then can an ecosystem begin to create a gravitational pull to bring in your Third (another greatly important role), each new addition seeking and creating equilibrium to maintain stability. Ecosystems of people are quite fragile, at all levels. It takes tremendous work to be aware of our own pitfalls, fears, insecurities, etc to keep ourselves "in the vertical" (i.e in individual equilibrium) so that our personal and collective ecosystems don't collapse/invert. Who is your First Follower? Or are you a First Follower to a Lone Nut? To be continued...