Cultivating Information is Like Growing a Network of Fungi

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As you go through your day, think of yourself as being exposed to spores. By using your tool of awareness and practiced integration, you can choose which spores to incorporate into your network. This metaphor breaks a bit because it's intentional, but it's still lovely. Even unplanned events, like being asked to be on a podcast, can add unexpected elements to your brain. The spores represent the fruiting bodies of mycelia, while hyphe symbolize the leading edge of the mycelial network. Overall, spores and hyphe are metaphorically rich in this big fungus analogy.

Jerry Michalski helps organizations become more trustworthy by exploring their language, processes, and intentions. That’s fascinating in itself — but I wanted to talk with him primarily because he curates an online resource called Jerry’s Brain, a deep repository of interconnected thoughts. He’s worked on Jerry’s Brain for a quarter of a century, longer than any other such experiment I’m aware of. So, I wanted to find out why and how he does this.

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