Gregory Vigneaux
@gregvigneaux.bsky.social
Consultant. Naturalizing Resilience Building©. Enjoying music & research. Experienced wildland firefighter & researcher. Exploring neurophysiology, operations, innovation, and social dynamics. Interested in time, design, complex systems, and biology
Pinned
Hello, Blueksky! My name is Gregory Vigneaux. I have degrees in Wildland Fire Mangement and Emergency Management. In my early career, I fought forest fires around the country. I am interested in societal issues and societal solutions. Presently, I am exploring the biology of resilience.
I gave my last planned talk of the year on November 18th at the Complexity Lounge titled "Humberto Maturana's Time: Living in the Present." I will post the YouTube link here on the platform when it becomes available. This was a great talk to research and put together, definitely a favorite.
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I gave my last planned talk of the year on November 18th at the Complexity Lounge titled "Humberto Maturana's Time: Living in the Present." I will post the YouTube link here on the platform when it becomes available. This was a great talk to research and put together, definitely a favorite.
Your invitation to come see me talk about time from the perspective of the giant Humberto Maturana!
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...
Gregory Vigneaux - Humberto Maturana’s Time: Living in the Present, Tue, Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
We are thrilled to welcome Gregory Vigneaux back to the Lounge. Greg has made a deep study of the work of one of the giants in complexity theory, Humberto Maturana.
Join u
www.meetup.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Your invitation to come see me talk about time from the perspective of the giant Humberto Maturana!
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...
www.meetup.com/complexitylo...
New blog post on GregoryVig: "The Stability of Instability." Likely the shortest post I have ever written, it focuses on how periods of an emergency marked by instability can be distinguished as the emergency stabilizing. Instability is the emergency stabilizing as unstable
tinyurl.com/2ssv6yhy
tinyurl.com/2ssv6yhy
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
New blog post on GregoryVig: "The Stability of Instability." Likely the shortest post I have ever written, it focuses on how periods of an emergency marked by instability can be distinguished as the emergency stabilizing. Instability is the emergency stabilizing as unstable
tinyurl.com/2ssv6yhy
tinyurl.com/2ssv6yhy
Sigur Rós (Iceland) with a full orchestra in Denver tonight. I might have put a little more pep in the set list, but otherwise flawless, and the rarest of rare opportunities. Will definitely keep listening. I recommend Takk... for an easy album to get into and it's celebrating 20 years!
November 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Sigur Rós (Iceland) with a full orchestra in Denver tonight. I might have put a little more pep in the set list, but otherwise flawless, and the rarest of rare opportunities. Will definitely keep listening. I recommend Takk... for an easy album to get into and it's celebrating 20 years!
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
Edgar Morin, French sociologist in Complex Thought, wrote a curriculum for complex thinking for UNESCO. It provides themes like pertinent knowledge, error and illusion, the understanding of others, human reality. Link to the PDF of this short work.
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
April 19, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Edgar Morin, French sociologist in Complex Thought, wrote a curriculum for complex thinking for UNESCO. It provides themes like pertinent knowledge, error and illusion, the understanding of others, human reality. Link to the PDF of this short work.
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/p...
At the beginning of a Sigur Rós concert. Cannot believe I am here.
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
At the beginning of a Sigur Rós concert. Cannot believe I am here.
For some uplifting, amazing music, listen to #Seirom.
burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-th...
burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-th...
and the light swallowed everything, by Seirom
9 track album
burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
For some uplifting, amazing music, listen to #Seirom.
burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-th...
burningworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/and-th...
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but was recently inspired to sit down and do so. A look at introducing complexity beyond technical, theoretical, and terminology-based approaches. The goal was to find a certain clearness in its communication.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
Communicating Complexity
Thoughts on clearly communicating complexity to others.
www.gregoryvig.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I have been meaning to write this for a while, but was recently inspired to sit down and do so. A look at introducing complexity beyond technical, theoretical, and terminology-based approaches. The goal was to find a certain clearness in its communication.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
www.gregoryvig.com/p/introducin...
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
The People (Das Volk) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/57364
October 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The People (Das Volk) https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/57364
A talk for managing through the difficult, uncertain, and unexpected times delivered from the perspective of Edgar Morin's work and personal experience. I am excited to share it. #complexity
It is on Substack as a video & podcast and is now available on Spotify.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/incidentops
It is on Substack as a video & podcast and is now available on Spotify.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/incidentops
September 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A talk for managing through the difficult, uncertain, and unexpected times delivered from the perspective of Edgar Morin's work and personal experience. I am excited to share it. #complexity
It is on Substack as a video & podcast and is now available on Spotify.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/incidentops
It is on Substack as a video & podcast and is now available on Spotify.
www.gregoryvig.com/p/incidentops
A brief piece on human dimensions intersecting w/influence
A short (5-minute) essay beginning a miniseries on positively, ethically, and realistically influencing others and the challenges found there while interacting with human dimensions, starting with vision. #Maturana
www.gregoryvig.com/p/wine
A short (5-minute) essay beginning a miniseries on positively, ethically, and realistically influencing others and the challenges found there while interacting with human dimensions, starting with vision. #Maturana
www.gregoryvig.com/p/wine
Of Remembering Old Wine: Dynamics of Influencing Others
What is Already Known About Behavioral Change and Product Engagement? A Look at Color Vision. Foundations for Wildfire Management et al. Volume 1, Essay Number Five.
www.gregoryvig.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
A brief piece on human dimensions intersecting w/influence
A short (5-minute) essay beginning a miniseries on positively, ethically, and realistically influencing others and the challenges found there while interacting with human dimensions, starting with vision. #Maturana
www.gregoryvig.com/p/wine
A short (5-minute) essay beginning a miniseries on positively, ethically, and realistically influencing others and the challenges found there while interacting with human dimensions, starting with vision. #Maturana
www.gregoryvig.com/p/wine
"Technology can be lived...as a value in which all is subordinated to the pleasure lived through doing it.... Technology becomes an addiction whose presence those addicted wish to justify through rational arguments founded on the historical reality of its great expansion in modern times" -Maturana
August 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"Technology can be lived...as a value in which all is subordinated to the pleasure lived through doing it.... Technology becomes an addiction whose presence those addicted wish to justify through rational arguments founded on the historical reality of its great expansion in modern times" -Maturana
"Machines differ from living systems...in their reference. The organization of machines... always has an alloreferential domain of interactions....Living systems, as a result of their basic circular organization...have a
self-referred domain of interactions" - Maturana, on AI, 1970
self-referred domain of interactions" - Maturana, on AI, 1970
August 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"Machines differ from living systems...in their reference. The organization of machines... always has an alloreferential domain of interactions....Living systems, as a result of their basic circular organization...have a
self-referred domain of interactions" - Maturana, on AI, 1970
self-referred domain of interactions" - Maturana, on AI, 1970
“That beyond death nothing should arise, and that beyond death there should be only death.....Because death is death and life without death is only emptiness” –Humberto R. Maturana.
August 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
“That beyond death nothing should arise, and that beyond death there should be only death.....Because death is death and life without death is only emptiness” –Humberto R. Maturana.
"Language does not describe a preexisting world, but
creates the world about which it speaks" - Winograd & Flores.
creates the world about which it speaks" - Winograd & Flores.
July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Language does not describe a preexisting world, but
creates the world about which it speaks" - Winograd & Flores.
creates the world about which it speaks" - Winograd & Flores.
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
Just need to repost this again. Greatest productivity hack you can ever do, and good for peace of mind at the same time.
Just Create
Everything else will follow. Yes, really.
Just Create
Everything else will follow. Yes, really.
July 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Just need to repost this again. Greatest productivity hack you can ever do, and good for peace of mind at the same time.
Just Create
Everything else will follow. Yes, really.
Just Create
Everything else will follow. Yes, really.
Hello everyone. This morning, I lectured on the complexity of incident operations from a natural hazards perspective, largely through the work of Morin, my own experiences, and Maturana. This talk had been in development for a while & Morin took it over the finish line
Patreon: tinyurl.com/2tmj49bn
Patreon: tinyurl.com/2tmj49bn
July 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Hello everyone. This morning, I lectured on the complexity of incident operations from a natural hazards perspective, largely through the work of Morin, my own experiences, and Maturana. This talk had been in development for a while & Morin took it over the finish line
Patreon: tinyurl.com/2tmj49bn
Patreon: tinyurl.com/2tmj49bn
Happy to report the Journal of Emergency Management has accepted my paper!
"Transitioning From Biological Networks To Participation In Social Networks Through Emotion And Sensorimotor Activity."
A paper on resilience and adoption.
A page and a quarter brief communication turned 11-page article.
"Transitioning From Biological Networks To Participation In Social Networks Through Emotion And Sensorimotor Activity."
A paper on resilience and adoption.
A page and a quarter brief communication turned 11-page article.
July 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Happy to report the Journal of Emergency Management has accepted my paper!
"Transitioning From Biological Networks To Participation In Social Networks Through Emotion And Sensorimotor Activity."
A paper on resilience and adoption.
A page and a quarter brief communication turned 11-page article.
"Transitioning From Biological Networks To Participation In Social Networks Through Emotion And Sensorimotor Activity."
A paper on resilience and adoption.
A page and a quarter brief communication turned 11-page article.
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
Like Maturana was openly critical about, drawing relations between non-intersecting domains is the stuff of shadow theaters. I am seeing this happen in the wildfire technology space, where comparisons are being made across domains that have nothing to do with one another. That is not helpful.
July 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Like Maturana was openly critical about, drawing relations between non-intersecting domains is the stuff of shadow theaters. I am seeing this happen in the wildfire technology space, where comparisons are being made across domains that have nothing to do with one another. That is not helpful.
“Never before in the history of humanity have the responsibilities of thinking weighed so crushingly on us. Thinking about tragedy has itself become tragic” - Morin & Kern
June 25, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Never before in the history of humanity have the responsibilities of thinking weighed so crushingly on us. Thinking about tragedy has itself become tragic” - Morin & Kern
Announcing my next online lecture titled "Complexity and Incident Response Operations" on July 9. An exploration of incident response from the perspective of brilliant complexity researcher (& philosopher) Edgar Morin & insights from my experience. See you there!
complexoperations.eventbrite.com
complexoperations.eventbrite.com
Complexity and Incident Response Operations
Exploring the complexity that can be a significant part of incident operations through Edgar Morin's work and Gregory Vigneaux's experience.
complexoperations.eventbrite.com
June 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Announcing my next online lecture titled "Complexity and Incident Response Operations" on July 9. An exploration of incident response from the perspective of brilliant complexity researcher (& philosopher) Edgar Morin & insights from my experience. See you there!
complexoperations.eventbrite.com
complexoperations.eventbrite.com
I listened to this recently and found it generally informative.
Almost enough to make me want to reexamine a few of his titles at the local book store. Almost.
Almost enough to make me want to reexamine a few of his titles at the local book store. Almost.
June 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I listened to this recently and found it generally informative.
Almost enough to make me want to reexamine a few of his titles at the local book store. Almost.
Almost enough to make me want to reexamine a few of his titles at the local book store. Almost.
Reposted by Gregory Vigneaux
As a photographer, get weird and arty when there's bad lighting or the entire band faces their back to the crowd.
I had the most fun taking photos of Dragged Into Sunlight at Damnation Fest 2024!
Dragged Into Sunlight | Damnation Fest 2024
#metalsky #livemusicphotography #photography
I had the most fun taking photos of Dragged Into Sunlight at Damnation Fest 2024!
Dragged Into Sunlight | Damnation Fest 2024
#metalsky #livemusicphotography #photography
May 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
As a photographer, get weird and arty when there's bad lighting or the entire band faces their back to the crowd.
I had the most fun taking photos of Dragged Into Sunlight at Damnation Fest 2024!
Dragged Into Sunlight | Damnation Fest 2024
#metalsky #livemusicphotography #photography
I had the most fun taking photos of Dragged Into Sunlight at Damnation Fest 2024!
Dragged Into Sunlight | Damnation Fest 2024
#metalsky #livemusicphotography #photography
A loop of Dragged Into Sunlight playing at the Marquis in Denver set to "Totem of Skulls" a few weeks ago. Absolutely amazing experience! Hard to believe we were able to see them. Inspirational for sure.
June 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A loop of Dragged Into Sunlight playing at the Marquis in Denver set to "Totem of Skulls" a few weeks ago. Absolutely amazing experience! Hard to believe we were able to see them. Inspirational for sure.