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Recently planted and tended public notes from across note.garden.

  1. stevegrossi

    1. Tao: The Watercourse Way

      Planted

      A book begun by Alan Watts and finished after his death by his collaborator Al Chung-Liang Huang

  2. ar3

    1. How do your teams celebrate releases or successful features or otherwise receive recognition?

      Planted

      Summary: We should celebrate Activities, Output, and Outcomes...

  3. stevegrossi

    1. Dust

      Planted

      Dustsceawung (Old English): contemplation of the fact that dust used to be other things—the walls of a city, the chief of the guards, a book, a great tree: dust is always the ultimate destination.

    2. frugal hedonism

      Tended

      Notes on the book The Art of Frugal Hedonism, a manifesto and manual for increasing your happiness while reducing your consumption.

    3. animal rights

      Tended

      The cruelty of Cuteness

    4. compassion vs. coercion

      Planted

      Perhaps the most fundamental division in one's posture toward the world is that of compassion versus coercion.

    5. nonviolent communication

      Tended

      A framework for communication and conflict resolution designed to build empathy with oneself and others, and in doing so discover the root causes of negative feelings.

    6. the mind is made of modules

      Tended

      In The Society of Mind, author Marvin Minsky describes at length a model of the human mind more like a democracy than a supercomputer.

    7. empathy

      Tended

      It’s a coincidence that empathy is built from a homonym for the Old English path, as in a trail.

    8. loss

      Planted

      From Necessary Losses by Judith Viorst: