Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Grateful for past me making decisions towards uncertainty, with trust that relational residue makes the best compost. 021
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It’s the (season-limited) everyday delights that captivate into dreaming. 010
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Belonging, to be longing, to feel safe and welcomed and enough to yearn for what and who one truly seeks, to be longing. 030
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Enthralled with the notion of ‘compost engineers’ cohering into ‘communities of compost’ to move into this next ‘artificial intelligence’ era with more groundedness and connection in discerning how we relate to and build technology. Excellent work. 000
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Are we trying to replace eldership with technology? Elders were part of the accountability fabric of communities - universally trusted with granting appropriate permissions. They had nuanced lenses from generational wisdom to understand the people in context, and they had the guidance of place. 000
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🌱 Next era: stewarding a commons for more people to craft more relational tech relationaltechproject.substack.com/p/hello-worl...relationaltechproject.substack.comHello World(Builder),What relational tech do we need? 130
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Reminders that mistakes can be repaired: removal of Glines Dam leading to the return of salmon and their multi-generational memory. (However, post-repair still requires maintenance! Some debris is in the removed dam and blocking the salmon passage again, and people don’t want to deal with it 😒) 010
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 27/06/2025‘When we talk about place-based working, it doesn’t just mean doing the same thing but in a local area, rather than nationally. Good place-based work achieves a more radical reset.’ 👏 👏 Appreciated this piece for both celebrations and questions endstate.substack.com/p/seeing-lik...endstate.substack.comSeeing like a placePlace-based work can be smarter and less bureaucratic, but can it rise to the political moment? 000
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 23/06/2025So delighted and impressed by the ‘vibes interpretation’ of this performance. 000
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Many examples of when necessity is the mother of invention. But do we actually know what our needs are? 010
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Sitting with a concept from an Anglican service I went to on Sunday… where work CAN be rest, if we are truly able to rest our minds, hearts, spirits, and general anxieties in the trust that the work matters and contributes meaningfully to something bigger 🤔 010
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Funny how dancing in public is socially weird when scrolling in public is socially expected 🤪 000
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 06/05/2025'Creating a town of hospitality workers does nothing to restore a village except as a modern Disney Land for expats—a historic Italian village serving as an attraction to relive the past, rather than a place to build the future.' www.elysian.press/p/matera-as-...elysian.pressMaybe villages are our future—not just citiesItaly's Matera as a case study for revitalizing small governments and creating a future of interconnected villages. 100
Deborah @detien.bsky.social · 23/04/2025‘Beyond right and wrong there is a field, I will meet you there.’ -Rumi Alongside ticks galore 🕷️ 030
