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1. Jason Hickel: It's either degrowth for the rich or climate disaster

   This podcast with Jason Hickel really helped to build an understanding of degrowth and how it differs from austerity and green growth. Lots of other nuggets of information about social indicators and GDP and how equality is a core principle of degrowth. Inspiring stuff!

2. LinkedIn’s ‘Christopher Nolan’ timeline

   I’ve come to the conclusion that LinkedIn hired Christopher Nolan to design their timeline feed because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

3. Fermentation as Metaphor – An Interview with Sandor Katz

   Fascinating conversation about the fermentation process, its role in history and our current lifestyle, and as a metaphor for our investment in the future of the planet.

   Fermentation is ultimately a very hopeful practice because it does not yield immediate gratification. There’s always delayed gratification in fermentation, and so in a quite literal way it’s an investment in the future. If you are despondent and despairing and don’t know if there’s a future, why would you invest your energy into fermenting? It is quite literally an investment in something that you’re going to be able to enjoy in the future, so there is an intrinsic hopefulness to any practice of fermentation.

   […] like any aspect of food production, requires us to cultivate a connection to the natural world and in the case of fermentation specifically to invisible forces in the natural world.

   […] so many people who are fermenting now in the West don’t have those same traditions in the same way because they’re transient. They’ve moved from those places, or the generations that held those no longer practiced them in the last generation or two and they became disconnected. It seems like there’s a reclaiming of ancestral roots that is also part of this fervor in fermentation. But it also seems like those ancestral roots that they’re trying to reconnect to are not going to take shape in the same way. They’re not going to appear like they did for their grandparents or their great-grandparents or back in the old country where they might have come from. It’s going to take on new shapes and forms but it’s still about this desire to find roots and go deeper.

4. Sideways podcast discovery

   After a bit of a hiatus I’ve got back into listening to podcasts. I’m using an old iPhone 4s as a dedicated device for audio brain food which offers me zero notification distraction. I’m also using @adactio’s https://huffduffer.com/ which allows me to subscribe to my chosen feed of podcasts via RSS. What I like most about Huffduffer is that I discover content from other users where I wouldn’t necessarily be looking. It’s a constant delight!

5. You're Dead to Me – The History of Timekeeping

   Time is funny. A very hilarious and fascinating history of time and timekeeping. Well worth your time.

6. Tech Won’t Save Us – Plastic Recycling Is a Scam

   Fascinating discussion about the state of recycling in the 21st century and a look at how the plastic industry has historically reframed the problem and blame on consumers.

7. Material Matters – Bas van Abel – Repair and conflict minerals

   Great conversation with Fairphone founder Bas van Abel about the trials and tribulations of starting a business and product focused on longevity, repairability and ethically sourced minerals.

   If consumerism was a religion we’d all be extremists.

8. Blackbox Episode 3 – Repocalypse now

   Loneliness, love, lust and LLMs… what could possibly go wrong?

9. I deleted my Instagram account

   Starting the slow process of removing myself and my data from these giant tech platforms.

   

10. PaperNet Boarding Pass

    A fantastic example of playful design and elevating the value artifacts based on the context of use. By Brian Suda and the creative folks at https://optional.is/.