Assembly theory and complexity theory

Like Lego and being given all the pieces of hog warts castle. What is the likelihood of you creating the actual castle. Minimal. With just two pieces you might be able to generate a shape. But not something particularly complex.

Does life create this?

This is a nice podcast which covers these topics and more.

Awesome Trail Building

After working on Rocky Branch since 2018 to renovate the park, it became very clear to me that the Trail Building community could really use a Framework or Templated approach for building trails. Like a niche business segment or company, all trail building projects are very similar in nature, structure, challenges and solutions. While I have not quite filled the gap of “open source trails”, I decided to take one small step in the right direction by compiling a list in the “Awesome” format, many software or online projects use these “awesome lists” to help folks get started in the right direction.

Step 2 of this project would be to build reusable templates, emails, websites, assets, way finding signage, presentations and maintenance schedules. The ultimate goal: Make it as simple as possible for volunteers, cities, towns and land owners to build trails. read more