Attentive Systems
A community garden illustrates how expectations subtly recalibrate our understanding of success and failure; yields improve not solely from better planning, but because neighbors anticipate outcomes together—and share accountability when things go awry. This suggests focused attention doesn’t forge connections *ex nihilo*, but amplifies existing relational dynamics over time. Consequently, even individual choices carry an ethical cost, resonating through the networks in which we participate and demanding recognition of our interdependence.