🌀 NEW POST: The Moral Weight of Imagination What kind of ancestor are you becoming? This issue takes a look at short-termism and how we can resist it. #Gen2200 #LongTermThinking #ShortTermism #Futures #Imagination #Systems #Ethics #Legacy #RegenerativePractice open.substack.com/pub/jaxnic/p...

Frost isn’t just frost. It’s part of a system. This reflection starts with a frosty morning in Canberra—but ends up somewhere much bigger. On systems, survival, and finding the spaces we can thrive in—slowly, carefully, on our own terms. ❄️ Best, Jax tinyurl.com/2vunxpew

Ever thought about a fridge as a living system? Me neither—until I did. Turns out, it’s a perfect metaphor for how our environments shape us. 🌱 Plus, a special offer to map your living systems with me. shorturl.at/MOrte #RegenerativeDesign #SystemsThinking #Cybernetics #Gen2200 #LivingSystems"**

Car-free green corridor connecting Cooks River to Sydney Harbour to open in 2025

🌿 New reflection: On orbiting true — trusting the quiet pull of change, even when old structures fall away. For those already tending real work, real worlds. Read here → shorturl.at/DBx5a Please press ❤️ if you like, share even, and subscribe if you’d like more! This means more than you can imagine.

🌼 Ever seen a digger driver wave at a toddler? It’s more than cute — it’s a glimpse of a living system in motion. I wrote about that, and some other things. Full moon edition’s just out 🌕 shorturl.at/5apZi

Nature has survived and flourished for billions of years through principles and systems that protect all parts of the whole. When we stray from these roots, we suffer from imbalance and inequity across our organizations and our societies. Poverty is a symptom of unnatural leadership.

✨ New Substack!✨ Bumper issue— learning, AI, living systems. Canberra autumn 🍂, AI caused facilitation frictions 🤖, mapping, and meaning and more. Includes: 🌀 My draft Gen2200 system map 🌱 Reflections on retrofitting, imagination & intergenerational learning Read here → shorturl.at/oh2VS

Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.) chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

🚀 A Machine To Help Us Imagine This issue: a Future Option Generator: a cyber-physical system that thinks 200 years ahead, then works back to now. 🔮at shorturl.at/4RE9F #FutureThinking #Cybernetics #ImaginationAndTechnology #Gen2200 & Thanks bsky.app/profile/pixe... for MidJourney tuition )

🚀 New on Toward Gen2200 “I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.” Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto shaped my ideas on tech, identity and power. Re-reading today—International Women’s Day—it is right for our time. AI, labour and the fight for imagination. 🌿🤖 open.substack.com/pub/jaxnic/p...

What do Bindi Erwin and I have in common? 📖 We’re both in the Big Issue. 💬 This one’s for #InternationalWomensDay. 🍇 Mine’s on wild plums and jam. 📰 Find a vendor. Grab a copy. Real stories. Real people. #TheBigIssue #PublicFood #RegenerativeFutures thebigissue.org.au/issue/bindi-...

Queer, Here and Not Going Anywhere At 6, I left a love note under my mother’s pillow. It was for a boy. I thought I was straight. Fast forward through queer 90s Sydney—Mardi Gras, activism, HIV/AIDS, drag, chosen family—to now, late 50s, updating my pronouns. We need visibility more than ever.

Hey Bluesky fliers, I write a weekly newsletter about how we can shape a better future with small, intentional actions. 🌟 Also you can subscribe for free for 7 days and access backstory. Currently exploring how even the smallest of actions can ripple forward. 🌍 open.substack.com/pub/jaxnic/p...

First post, Blue Sky style: What's a social media world without algorithms? I can hardly remember. Is it better—or just different?