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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feedback loop
If you see a behavior that persists over time, there is likely a mechanism creating that consistent behavior. -
systems
A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organized in a way that achieves something. -
third place
Any source of identity and community outside of the home (the “first place”) and workplace (the “second place”). -
mass incarceration
With over 2.3 million Americans jailed or imprisoned (source: the Prison Policy Initiative), “the land of the free” has more of its citizens explicitly un-free (in absolute numbers and per capita) than any place else on Earth, now or at an… -
gaslighting
Gaslighting is a form of emotional abuse intended to make someone doubt the evidence of their own experience. -
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. -
climate change
Climate change’s existential threat is not hypothetical. -
longing
Longing, on a large scale, is what makes history. -
Growth and Underinvestment
This is a systems archetype that describes how underinvesting in capacity can hinder growth, and it can be temping to use the resulting fall in performance to justify the underinvestment. -
Causal loop diagrams
A visual way of representing systems: their elements, relationships between elements, and feedback loops resulting from those relationships.