• feeling under the weather; most likely seasonal cold/allergies

• We featured in Noorah’s dreams! Leo showed up half-naked...; Joe accused NA of stealing his book which was Belgium’s constitution.

  • LV: Not too unrealistic, and besides Joe does love his books

  • JC: Dreams are cool :-)

  • NA: People are usually harbingers of something else...

• Feels sorry about the low-energy from last week (but everything’s fine!)

• Doing fine, has a wound on his shin from biking

• Weekending progresses apace

• We had ‘almost’ created a recurring meeting with Abby, but she was quite busy with the start of the semester.

• We had a lot of meetings w/ her prior to the semester starting

  • Thursday best for NA and probably all of us.

• A list of attendees, for both workshops.

• Patterns.

• Do we want different list of requirements between this proto-workshop and the future ones?

• We can review this today and ask Abby for her thoughts as well on Thursday

Collective review:

• brittleness?

• chaos as a pattern

• trivial: partic*-*ipants?

• Our ship metaphor is building on other ship metaphors (like the polis as a ship for the Ancient Greeks)

• Dissolving boundaries : “we only see nature as something to consume”

• It sums up a lot of our common ground to create a good working environment (e.g., ‘the ocean’)

• But, regarding the workshop itself, thinking about ‘social contract’ and ‘X contract’, I’m not sure how relevant it is for our presentation of the workshop methods...

• We need to be careful about what we put in the heads of participants when we get started

• Some of the things will be thought-provoking, but if we talk too much about ‘dissolving boundaries’ (removing identity as well as expertise)

  • People may be too aware of the process...!

• Some of the points ought to be mentioned before we start the workshop (a blurb); some of the things might need to be communicated after the workshop to explain why

• JC: also the midway point where we’ll introduce different things to different people

• If we talk about ‘dissolution of self relative to environment’ — this should be entirely done by Phase I

  • "This is what allowed us to go to the very bottom of the problem as citizens"

  • "As we’re now going to mobilise your expertise, be aware that we’ve now dissolved the boundaries between all of you; we’ve also dissolved you with regard to your environment"

• If you type a word, it will recognise that it’s a dog...

• But there’s no further brain...

• Features of text tools:

  • Add concept modelling (based on Noorah’s work)

• s/playes/plays/

• We’re taking a laid-back meeting, staying to about one hour

• JC: Perfect day here in the UK

  • NA: Antidote to the SADs!

• LV: I decided to share a little less and focus on what I want to share rather than having constant logorhea... I don’t need to steal the show w/ a long rant about X and Y.

  • JC: Mind can create pain or make it go away, apparently.

    • LV: I wish I could wish away pain!

    • NA: I hate how much it distracts you from other things

    • LV: It’s like a buzzing fly, it doesn’t produce a lot of noise, but it can be still annoying partly because there’s no pattern

• NA: How do you do the emojis?

• LV: Emojis look wrong in Org Bullets!

  • I used to love Nyan cat but I realised it was very distacting

    • JC: Let’s not over-design our stuff

• "Fly" is feminine in both Arabic and French

  • NA: I can guess the gender of French words based on Arabic

    • LV: It’s possible that there are language borrowings

• Sun/Moon gender is opposite in French and German

• LV: I recommend the retelling of "The Stranger" from a different perspective by Kamel Daoud

  • NA: Worth rereading "The Stranger"

• LV: I read "The Plague" ("La Peste") by Camus before Covid!

• LV: "When Annie Ernaux says ‘I’, the reader feels ‘we’."

• More chat time is good

• Short sessions sometimes are OK

• Going back to bed, and may order Thai food

  • JC: I met my old neighbour who’s the proprietor of Shakti Kitchen.

• I have lots of Algerian food to eat later

• Hungry and going to go cook now, I was supposed to have something here now, but don’t, so I must cook

• Healing my leg...

  • NA: Ouch!!! Did you get a tetanus shot?

  • I couldn’t have done it better if I wanted to get a tattoo