Week-ish notes – study tools

An open lined notebook with three pens placed diagonally across the pages. The pens are light blue, dark blue, and black, arranged from top to bottom on a white surface.

You might start a day with the best of intentions, but sometimes it takes just a few things for it to go off the rails, and the best thing to do is just accept the loss and move on rather than making it worse beating yourself up about it. I have great difficulty achieving focus …

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Food, farming and agroecology on Bluesky

A promotional graphic for starter pack focused on "Agroecology and Food Systems" hosted on Bluesky. The design features a banner with the text "JOIN THE CONVERSATION" at the top, followed by images of several individuals framed in circular portraits. The title "Agroecology and Food Systems on Bluesky" is prominently displayed in the lower half, with a butterfly icon symbolising the Bluesky platform.

My social local is currently Bluesky. Bluesky does starter packs, ready-to-go lists of accounts to follow around a particular topic, with suggested feeds that aggregate further content. I’ve created a starter pack on agroecology and food systems that you might want to follow if you’re interested in a quick start in a new place. I …

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Global Systems Thinking week 2: Systems

This week, we’re looking at systems; a lot of this is through the lens of population change. World population and exponential growth Note, the decreasing amount of time between each 1 billion increase. What is the limit to human population growth? James Dyke suggested that this may be a thermodynamic limit, other limits may include …

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Global Systems Thinking week 1

Thank you to Doug Belshaw for the inspiration to blog notes on my Master’s. I did something similar when I read International Studies with the Open University, in fact, to trick myself into getting assignments done I effectively blogged them before taking them back into a more referenced and academic format for submission. I might …

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Week-ish notes

opened notebook with three assorted color pens

I’m inspired to try blogging more often using the day/week notes format I’ve seen from Dave Briggs and others. I want to take the pressure off myself, of needing to think of a big theme for a post and go back to using this site as a scratchpad. So it’s back to the diary format. …

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