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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. Gardening

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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)

  4. hope

    > The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.

  5. artificial intelligence

    ## All that really needs to be said about AI

  6. the great turning

    > The great turning is a revolution that is underway, the transition to a life-sustaining society.

  7. Degrowth

    As the [[Limits to Growth]] report made clear in 1972, the Earth simply cannot support the limitless growth and resource consumption upon which the present economic order depends.

  8. wildness

    > There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild.

  9. Look for the helpers

    Sound advice for children (and, honestly, myself) when trying to process tragedy:

  10. Imperial boomerang

    The idea that repressive techniques of control developed abroad are eventually used against a government’s own citizens: