I woke up last night with some interesting thoughts in my head.

We are all drawing lines in this multidimensional canvas called world. Some lines are strong, some are faint, some are dotted, some are straight, some curly. They come in all different colours some are even multicoloured.

You can look at this whole canvas of the world and it sometimes looks like a bit of a mess but then you can also zoom in and see all of these lines interacting with each other in the most extraordinary ways, creating beautiful shapes of meaning. Then other lines get inspired by those and creating different shapes that are inspiring others.

The lines change over time. At some point, they turn faint as if the pen is running out of ink. That’s ok because they are making space of new lines to continue adding colour to the picture of the world.

Every once in a while there is a splash of turpentine on the canvas. Once the lines cross it they thin out, change their shape, direction and colour and some even disappear. These splashes can look pretty ugly but they also help the lines come together and share some of their ink with others to stop the fading out. When you zoom out you see it created the most beautiful rainbow colours.

All of us and our lifelines are creating something exceedingly beautiful and then we realise that what we created is also creating us.

Oh wow, I just finished Douglas Hofstadter’s “I am a Strange Loop” It took me a while to get through but it was well worth it. It’s probably one of the most insightful books I have ever read.

I thought for a while that when you are having a conversation with someone you are sharing parts of your unique world view with the other person. In a way, a blueprint of your ideas will then will live on in their mind and vice versa. By exchanging stories you will make the person and yourself a little bit more immortal because even after you die your stories will live on in the other person.

So many fascinating conversations at Ideas Anonymous #2 last night. It always really excites me to listen to all of the different perspectives. There was six of us which allowed really in depth discussions. Here are my notes. Here are some of the ideas we explored:

• A podcasting network focussing on people from diverse backgrounds
• A tool to build your own home battery storage bank out of recycled batteries
• A dam to block of port Philip Bay to protect the city from rising seawater levels while working as hydropower plant
• A policy to enforce a minimum 5 years warranty on electronic goods
• Immersive experiences to enable privileged people to understand people’s suffering in other countries
• A creative production company to put people in their dream world.
• A decentralised library of everything.
• A video interview series to share people’s diverse backgrounds.

3 movies came up in conversations: Annihilation, The Game, In my Blood in runs 

There were two plugs: Amruta’s Heckin’ Concerned Podcast and Warren’s Break Fest #6 

My favourite quote of the night was: “You never know, if you don’t ask”

Ideas Anonymous #3 is On Wed, March 18th. You can sign up here: https://events.humanitix.com.au/ideasanonymous