Affinity

[greenstorm]

I like trying things, comparing things, recording information, and thinking about how to present it. Specifically growing things, generally plants but also to a lesser extent animals. I like finding the differences and similarities in each iteration of variety or year. I like thinking about connections: the tendrils that snake out from our abstract atomized concept of a thing and blur it into the things around it. I like breaking the concept of edge, of one-thing-separate-from-another, and understanding what's a true connection and what is bias or assumption about such reliance.

Although I really like making sure things are recorded, and recorded according to processes that allow for meaningful data comparison, I'm not a great bureaucrat. I don't enjoy the way human systems accumulate cruft if they're not regularly overhauled completely, I don't enjoy designing human systems, I don't enjoy shifting the humans into these systems and keeping them there.

This means I don't like initiating groups although I like supporting them if someone else is organizing. I don't want to be the one to explain a new idea to folks; I'm happy to provide follow-up info after the first exposure. If someone is cautiously interested, I'll take them to excited and love it.

And if no one is interested, well, that's what my life feels like normally. As long as I can poke around and grow things and see what happens.