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

  1. stevegrossi

    1. optionality

      Tended

      A measure of one's choices available in a given situation.

    2. software architecture

      Tended

      The art and practice of structuring software to maximize its habitability, primarily for those who work on, since it If software never needed to be changed then architecture would be unnecessary.

    3. wu wei

      Tended

      Often translated as "doing nothing" or "effortless action," wu wei is a concept in Chinese philosophy and at the heart of Taoism for not forcing your way through an obstacle, but instead waiting for the obstacle to go away or for the momen…

    4. Code reviews

      Tended

      Code reviews are a form of peer feedback for programmers.

    5. Stress

      Tended

      The Stress-Response Cycle

    6. hedonic adaptation

      Tended

      Also known as the hedonic treadmill, this is the human tendency to return to a baseline level of (un)happiness after major positive or negative life events.

    7. open-source

      Planted

      A movement and ethic by which the source-code for software is made freely available to the public, typically for use, inspection, and collaboration.

    8. symmathesy

      Tended

      From Jessica Kerr:

    9. satire

      Planted

      I've long appreciated the clever deployment of sarcasm and satire, but have come to reflect on their drawbacks, specifically how they give the illusion of power or critique without actually changing anything: Andrew Bosworth feels likewise:

    10. political philosophy

      Tended

      Political philosophy is ethics applied to groups, the theory of politics.