The mushroom at the end of the world

• staying alive for every species requires livable collaboration
• scalability is not an ordinary feature of nature and requires a lot of work
• expect interactions between scalable and non-scalable projects
• The bulk of the work is threading through the non-scalable to reach the scalable

On the middle man

• a necessary consummate translator within the supply chain
• he maintains a mental map of who needs what
• helps efficiently route the inventory to the most suitable individual

On Freedom

• it is the concept of not having to be a cog in the machine.
• it does not necessarily lead to great economic outcome for the pursuing individual
• it allows the individual the ability to freely allocate the use of his time

The matsutake mushroom

• along most parts of supply chain it symbolizes a social exchange which strengthens social ties
• it is only during the sorting when the mushroom is looked at purely as a commodity

Man and nature

• The satoyama revitalization
  • man is part of nature
  • man’s disturbance to nature is part of nature
• unintentional design is the interplay of man and nature
  • animal/human activities/disturbance
  • pine tree growth
  • matsutake mushroom colonization and growth