🔁✨The Nexialist #0050 - Flashback pt.i
Things That Changed My Life This Year | Futures Thinking | Ancestrality and Decolonization | Digital Culture | Concepts | Tools
Welcome to your weekly guide on what’s delicious on the web, The Nexialist!
It’s been almost one year since I started The Nexialist, can you believe it? I decided to take a look back on every week’s Nexialist and organize my (and your) favorite brain-sparking content in two parts, The Flashback. Feel free to skim through and click on your favorite themes as a refresher or find something you might have missed, there is a lot of great stuff.
I have to say I’m so proud of what I’m doing here, and I would love to hear from you what you thought about the first year of The Nexialist: any favorite week, anything that stood out for you? Thank you for being there, reading, responding, sharing it (or even saving for later and never reading, I do that all the time).
I’ll start with a shortlist of things that inspired me (or forced me) to change this year, then I proceed to Futures Thinking, Ancestrality and Decolonization, Digital Culture, Concepts I loved, Tools
Things That Changed My Life This Year:
🧠✨The Nexialist: this project (and you, yes you!) helped me create this sense of independence and commitment. It’s as if I created a system (which I had not intended) to keep myself informed, have fun and feed a flow of content. Thank you for being on this journey with me!
📓Bullet Journal: #0010 I can visualize and track my weeks, months, and specific behaviors. Also, I can feed on my stationery obsession and take some time to be out of the screens.
🎨The Artist’s Way: #0025 This 12-week process reclaimed my brain and helped me get in touch with myself. Thank you, Lalai, for the recommendation and Juan and all the friends that decided to join us.
🫀EuroTrip with my Family: #0041 The first trip that my family and I had done in years. It was a dream come true!
😶🌫️Bell’s Palsy - Facial Paralysis: #0042 It’s been more than 2 months and unfortunately the recovery is slower than expected. Please, send good energies for The Nexialist, who is taking great care of himself 🫀
Below, I listed some recurring themes and organized my favorite posts for each. Part 2 comes next week. Enjoy!
🔭Futures Thinking
Queer the Future: #0005
Imagination as a Necessity: #0015
Protopia Futures: #0027
Solarpunk and the End of Capitalism: #0040
Art, Science, Future Studies: #0046
Counterculture, Counter-Futures: #0010
Decolonizing Foresight: #0021
Foresight in Hindsight (Can art predict things?): #0001
Cozy Futurism: #0017
Netocracy vs. Consumtariat: #0018
The Future of Reasoning: #0019
Future of Sex: #0021
Amish Tech: #0021
TechWorry: #0033
Social Mobility in the Digital Age: #0047
Memories from the Future: #0048
🌍Ancestrality and Decolonization
Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times: #0032
Decolonizing Our Temporality: #0010
How to be a Good Ancestor: #0017
Postponing The End of The World: #0019
“It’s not 2030 or 2050, it’s now”: #0043
Lo-Tek: A New Mythology of Technology: #0043
Native Languages Map | Language Keepers: #0020
The Guarani Language: #0035
The State of Sustainability: #0030
Beyond Silicon Valley: #0030
Fantastic Fungi: #0031
The Lungs of the World Have no Oxigen: #0003
Zealandia, the 8th continent: #0039
Anthropogenic Mass: #0048
Ancient Computer: #0048
📱Digital Culture
Digital Fluency: #0028
Digital Identity: #0034
Virtual Economy: #0018
Creator Economy: #0025
Evolution of Authenticity: #0010
Synthetic Media: #0017
Superindustry of the Imaginary: #0028
Culture of Proximity: #0006
Four C-words of the Internet: #0045
Smartphones & Rosaries: #0044
Context Collapse: #0025
Streisand Effect: #0035
NFTs: #0018
Rosetta Stone for the Digital Age: #0009
Parasocial Relationships: #0047
Asynchronous Work: #0049
🤯Concepts I loved
Tentacular Thinking: #0046
Scenius a.k.a Communal Genius: #0031
Social Infrastructure: #0015
Memory Palace: #0015
Overton Window: #0002
Ontological Design: #0003
Chronosonder: #0012
Pleasure Equation: #0011
Knowledge Curation: #0014
Bibliotherapy: #0014
Cringe: #0014
Imaginals vs. Imagination: #0019
Pronoia: #0027
The Brazilianization of the World: #0035
Aphantasia: #0045
Collector Economy: #0047
Generational Death: #0049
🛠Tools
2022 Trend Reports: #0049
Decolonizing Foresight: #0021
Planning Toolbox: #0021
Content Diet: #0002
Future Laboratory Methodology: #0021
FLIM: Iconographic Search: #0025
Creative Effectiveness: #0028
Kialo (Rational Debating Tool): #0003
Save for Later: #0003
Remote Cultural Canvas: #0009
MADStrat Framework: #0002
Tools for A System Thinker: #0046
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