Network
Recently planted and tended public notes from across note.garden.
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stevegrossi
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engineering excellence
Building software that it is useful, correct, consistent, and fast—in such a way that minimizes the waste of time (i.e.
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trees
Herman Hesse in his 1920 collection of fragments, Wandering: Notes and Sketches:
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measurement
A quantitively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.
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Greet your demons
Pema Chodron in When Things Fall Apart:
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Money
Money is a social construct—something that has value only because we all agree it does—which serves three main purposes:
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economics
From the Greek word oikonomos for "household", economics is concerned with how humans meet their needs in the world.
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energy descent
The idea that we as a species are soon approaching a period of energy contraction in which we'll have to get by on less energy than we have in centuries.
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Bhagavad Gita
An ancient Hindu scripture in the form of a conversation between the warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna the night before a battle.
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decision-making
From the Latin de - caedere meaning "to cut off," to decide from among options is to cut off the possibility of all but the one we choose.
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food forest
Food forests (also called forest gardens) are a permaculture pattern for dense, highly-productive agriculture that mimics the ecosystems found in nature.
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