Who is this anyway?

Intro to me

I have been advised by multiple people that I should start a blog or a post or whatever.... OK, so here is the start.

I am at that age of retirement and bored with the thought of not working everyday. (I bet there are a lot of people like that in the world. ) I enjoy thinking. I enjoy making things work. I have to admit I don’t enjoy focusing on just one thing at a time. (That might explain my tendency to lose jobs where people insist that focus is necessary in order to get things done.)

If I listed the positions and jobs I have had, you might consider that I had no consistent career. (Hmmm lack of focus…) But in reality every job had one thing in common. I was a system designer. I kind of think that to be a system designer, and you want to design really useful systems, that you should not be dedicated to focusing. You have see everything around you and how it can fit together.

I found focusing is a bit like looking at the world with just one eye. You can se the things in front of you, but what about the stuff on the other side of your nose? And, unless you are moving around a lot, how far away are things.

So maybe I don’t focus nor do I stay still a lot! I want to see everything, see how far away it all is, and basically see how it all fits together.

Today I am interested in determining how we can reconfigure our lives so that we those things we enjoy while live within the budget this planet has provided us. Weird… Here I am having lived in 2 separate centuries. I find we have 20th century systems trying to solve 21st century problems. It might be possible… but I really doubt it.

The reason for this substack is to explore thinking, ideas, observations, and see if anyone else REALLY wants to criticize those thoughts - and set me straight.

And if I don’t focus on environmental issues, you will have to get over it.