Thread by @ImmyKaur

There are some people who fundamentally transformed the last decade for me & work that I look forward to following. Here is a little thread, of work to think about as we go into 2020. I’ll update it through the day though, feel free to add people things to the thread ...

1. My person of the decade would be @AlastairParvin, because he is smart, but with that he thinks, researches, writes, builds practical examples, is generous, shares all his thinking & doesn’t even care about attribution but just that the work / ideas get out there ...

... and people start to play with them, improve them, & experiment into the future. I think if our leaders were more like him, this decade would have been very different in the UK. He gives me great hope, from an inspiration point of view but also because he does the work ...

I’d recommend his @Medium, particularly ‘The New Social Contract Series’ but it’s ALL very good & #AffordableLand white paper to get you started.
medium.com/@AlastairParvin & opensystemslab.io/affordableland

The UK doesn’t have anything like it, but if were in the US, he should get a @macfound genius grant, and help usher us all into the future, with some real thought, hope and practical examples.

The same traits, of getting work and thinking done, and just putting it out there to be improved & built is @indy_johar. Over the last decade if anything has been confirmed, he is way ahead in the future, & I see how minds that complement that, some of @00ecosystem can ...

... really do incredible stuff. It’s slow progress though, not in the scale of how long big change takes, but in the sense that the UK just doesn’t have the structures to support this sort of work, not properly. So, more progressive counties give the work a home for now ...

The biggest thing is that most people don’t find @indy_johar’s work easy, so there’s two responses to it, to go in deep & bring it to life, or to totally shun it as not relevant as the current reality is too hard to think like this. In that way he is a visionary & I’ve enjoyed ..

& been grateful for the deep challenge. If you can really appreciate where all sorts of minds, talents & work sits in the ecosystem you can be totally liberated by work this bold. There’s 100’s of things to look at, but what I would reccomend to get started is ...

... follow the work of @DarkMatter_Labs, and particularly this year:
1. Smart Commons:
provocations.darkmatterlabs.org/a-smart-common… & their work in Canada with @JayneEngle / @jwmcconnell.

Meeting @KateRaworth and not only hearing her ideas, but her commitment to working with actors in the planetary system, big & small to translate what #DoughnutEconomics looks like in practice for all sorts of people, there’s something really liberating to know that within ...

.. the meta frameworks there are parts that we can all help to figure out, it takes some real big broad bold thinking to not only share you work to be unpacked and built in different ways around the world, but also see that out in different scales. I’d start by reading ..

I would start with reading or listening to the book, watch the you tube videos or the TED Talk: &
ted.com/talks/kate_raw…. I have particularly loved watching Kate, Indy & Alastairs organisation intersect this last year.

People to watch in 2020, @amahra_ founding @thisisABUELOS & @MAIA_Group’s ongoing work. @amyrozelmartin making her #BABHaus vision come to life, @aliyahhasinah, @AliBaskerville, @SKbydesign. Always @Adewunmi, @FINOkoye, although I’ve never met @JayneEngle seems to be investing ..

... in the work that needs to lead the way. @CassieRobinson is taking her work, tools & reflection up a notch. I think @LouiseWyman is going to really put her stamp on the region in 2020, I think @andyreevo, @zazoothunder, @inderjitkaur77 & @ThatNikkiBi will level up ...

... it’s worse really closely following & listening to @ByngSquirrel & @danielyep as they have been by far the highlight of one of the hardest years ever, work ethic, synthesis & meticulous in their detail, analysis & critical thinking as well as brilliant producers.

I’m very excited to see what @Nikki_Clegg2, @thirtypercy & @camydeacon do in 2020, their resource and enthusiasm is invigorating. @DerekABard, @khankfarza are doing bits and starting to influence systems in the way I know they have been pushing for, for a long time.

The very brilliant @play_future, @jeffreytumlin, @BrentToderian will continue to inspire with their very inspiring, deep & pratical analysis of the large shifts we need in our places and how we get there, they are well worth following and just listening to, properly listening to.

I clearly really meant worth* not worse.