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stevegrossi

Hi 👋🏻, I’m Steve. I built note.garden to help me connect concepts and ideas on the things I’m interested in, mainly programming, philosophy, and systems thinking, especially related to how to behave ethically within unethical systems. When parenting leaves me time, I’m enjoying learning to play the tin whistle. This is the temple of my adult aloneness.

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  1. depression

    From _Lost Connections_, nine causes of depression and anxiety (including mine):

  2. Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

    A quote from _The Dispossessed_.

  3. inequality

    Inequality is typically measured by the Gini coefficient for either [[wealth]] or income (the rate of change in wealth), with 0 being perfect equality and 1 being perfect inequality.

  4. consumerism

    An ideology and set of behaviors that values human beings primarily based on what they own.

  5. technology

    > Its technology is how a society copes with physical reality: how people get and keep and cook food, how they clothe themselves, what their power sources are (animal?

  6. meditation

    > Meditation is to be aware of what’s going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

  7. play

    Any activity you choose to engage in for no practical purpose other than enjoyment of it.

  8. Gardening

    > If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

  9. polycrisis

    A term for the range of emergencies facing our species at the start of the 21st century, emergencies that not only coincide but which interact and reinforce each other.

  10. visionary organizing

    > Philosopher, organizer, and beloved movement elder Grace Lee Boggs would often begin conversations by asking, “What time is it on the clock of the world?” According to Grace, one answer is that “in the midst of this epochal shift, we all need to practice visionary organizing.” For her, that meant moving beyond protest organizing: “Instead of viewing the US people as masses to be mobilized...we must have the courage to challenge ourselves to engage in activities that build a new and better world by improving the physical, psychological, political, and spiritual health of ourselves, our families, our communities, our cities, our world, and our planet.” In her view, visionary organizing “begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.” (from _Practicing New Worlds_ by Andrea Ritchie)