Fragment — Where Invisible Networks Reveal Themselves
A mycorrhizal exploration at the heart of Paysalia.
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As I told you in a recent Note, I went to Paysalia with one guiding rule in mind:
a network only lives through what it allows to circulate.
And what better place to test that than a garden-focused trade show?
I was expecting something like a quiet forest floor at dawn.
Instead, I stepped into a full-blown ecosystem in motion.
Second day: 20,000 visitors, 1,800 exhibitors, aisles humming, voices rising, workshops overlapping.
A show at its peak — the exact moment when the living world reveals what it connects… and what it refuses to.
Very quickly, one thing became obvious:
in a show dedicated to plants, not every stand is… alive.
Some were stunning, staged almost like theatrical gardens.
From afar, you’d believe it: “something is growing here.”
But two steps closer… nothing.
No availability, no welcome — sapless under a perfect surface.
A symbiosis that seemed possible, and that evaporated as you approached.
And then, the opposite.
Smaller spaces, less polished, less “Instagram-ready”, but porous.
An inviting glance.
A real moment of listening.
A conversation opening without effort — like a mycorrhiza recognising a familiar signal and connecting instantly.
Connections today rarely look like business cards.
They happen through the event app, a QR code scanned on the move,
a document sent seconds later, an immediate follow on social networks.
But none of that really matters.
It’s never the tool that creates the connection — it’s the impulse behind it.
In the end, I gathered more anchor points than expected.
Not contacts to stack, no.
Filaments — ready to extend as soon as I turn on the right light.
(Next Tuesday will be devoted to growth: a day to nurture what, in my view, truly deserves to grow.)
This visit confirmed something I had sensed for a long time:
the mycorrhizal rule isn’t a pretty metaphor.
It’s a way of reading large events, of sensing where real fertility circulates, and of not getting hypnotised by the surface décor.
And maybe one day, you too will walk through one of these immense shows.
1,800 exhibitors, 20,000 visitors, kilometres of aisles…
It’s easy to get lost if you don’t know where to place your roots.
So I decided to distil this exploration into a simple, living, practical method —
to help you create connections that truly nourish, without exhausting yourself, and without losing the essence.
If you’d like to receive it, just let the network keep circulating:
subscribe, and everything will reach you naturally.
Some connections will germinate.
Others will remain dormant.
But what began circulating at Paysalia… has already found its path.
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Written and shared with passion by
Franz AKA 1erCopyVegetal 🌿
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