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

  1. stevegrossi

    1. propaganda's purpose is to undermine the idea of truth

      Tended

      Hannah Arendt in her 1951 book The Origins of Totalitarianism: propaganda's purpose isn't necessarily to convince people of falsehoods, but to make them give up on the idea of truth, to “make people believe the most fantastic statements on…

    2. in order to grow, we must learn to stay

      Tended

      From When Things Fall Apart, the four maras (sometimes called demons) are four ways we habitually lose sight of the present moment, ourselves, and reality:

    3. solving one problem only reveals the next one

      Tended

      From Max Yoder's weekly note, inspired by Thinking In Systems:

    4. we see the world not as it is, but as we are

      Tended

      Max shared this gem with me, from Anthony de Mello via the Dense Discovery newsletter, as well as an echo from the Tao Te Ching:

    5. Scale of code quality

      Tended

      Inspired by my friend Tony's "Scale of Awesomeness",

  2. ar3

    1. Prolonged empty tank

      Planted

      I’ve written about The Tank and even Empty tank.

    2. The Tank

      Planted

      Not the boom boom kind....

  3. stevegrossi

    1. selective enforcement leads to discrimination

      Planted

      Having rules that are infrequently enforced creates the malignant opportunity for them to be enforced unequally against certain groups.

    2. if you want to build a ship

      Tended

      From Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

    3. manage your energy, not your time

      Planted

      In the spirit of "time management" I used to set aside time for every task I needed to to, only to wind up goofing off in the afternoon and feeling bad about not completing every task I'd assigned myself.