This Is Precious

This is a WILD WITH SARAH WILSON conversation, investigating ideas and practices that can help build our new, life-generating future. We are in a liminal time, between an old world that is no longer holding and a new world - “the what comes next” - that’s yet to emerge. Now is the time to be imagining this future together. If this episode inspires you, please share it with loved ones. Our final guest for this season of Wild is Indy Johar a systems designer and the founder of Dark Matter Labs.

My trip to Australia was bitter and sweet. As some of you know, I had to get home suddenly - and much earlier than planned - to see my mum who was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer.

This is a WILD WITH SARAH WILSON conversation, investigating ideas and practices that can help build our new, life-generating future. We are in a liminal time, between an old world that is no longer holding and a new world - “the what comes next” - that’s yet to emerge. Now is the time to be imagining this future together. If this episode inspires you, please share it with loved ones.

I write to you from a cafe in a small neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris. I’ve been here almost five hours on my laptop ordering a nonsensical array of beverages and foodstuffs every hour or so, to pay my way. The place is packed. Kids are playing chess (school has been cancelled), dogs are under the tables, the elderly are reading, people are whispering into their phones, trying to hold work Zoom calls.

This is a WILD WITH SARAH WILSON conversation, investigating ideas and practices that can help build our new, life-generating future. We are in a liminal time, between an old world that is no longer holding and a new world - “the what comes next” - that’s yet to emerge. Now is the time to be imagining this future together. If this episode inspires you, please share it with loved ones.

This is a WILD WITH SARAH WILSON conversation, investigating ideas and practices that can help build our new, life-generating future. We are in a liminal time, between an old world that is no longer holding and a new world - “the what comes next” - that’s yet to emerge. Now is the time to be imagining this future together. If this episode inspires you, please share it with loved ones. Today’s guest is Jeremy Lent an author, systems thinker and a leading authority on civilizations.

It’s two years to the week since I started writing I EAT THE STARS: How to live fully and beautifully in a collapsing world. It took me two months to write the first chapter (initially here on Substack as a serialisation). I started a relationship with a wild Corsican man the exact same week; we broke up a few days after I finished writing the book. I entered peri-menopause. Trump came back into power. We surpassed the seventh of the nine planetary boundaries. We crossed the 1.5C IPCC threshold.

A few years back Will Ferrell made a speech at some Hollywood Reporter event. He was describing the grim state of the world and pivoted to a comedic provocation: “Isn’t it just time for women to run the planet? I swear, but I don’t know what else to do because we— men . . . and we’re not doing so good. So, please, can you guys just take over?” The crowd laughed; it was funny because he’d said out loud the bit that none of us was really sure we should. This is a reader-supported publication.

Apologies for this ugly post of discounts. But I figure they’d be appreciated by many of you. I thank for your support in advance. This book means a lot to me. I asked Australian-owned online store Booktopia if they’d offer their discount to the community here again. They said yes. It’s currently 30% off, use code STARS10 to get an extra 10% off, until Monday. Goodreads is currently running a giveaway for I Eat the Stars.

I’ve been observing Australia, my home country with outsider eyes the past few months. A journalist asked me in a recent interview to describe what I’ve been seeing in three words. A Bewildered Sadness, I replied. This is a reader-supported publication. To support my work and be part of this wild community project consider becoming a paid subscriber.