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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. living vs. dead spaces

    Christopher Alexander (who wrote [[A Pattern Language]]) on what it means for the built environment to be _alive_, which is necessary _for us to feel alive_ within it:

  2. poetry

    > Robert Frost coupled poetry and power, for he saw poetry as the means of saving power from itself.

  3. race is an invention

    Race has no basis in biology, it had to be invented; but like other [[social construct|social constructs]] (e.g.

  4. Poverty

    ## Globally, poverty didn't always exist; it has been (and continues to be) imposed

  5. the great turning

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. wealth

    Wealth is a measure of human weal, an Old English word for "well-being".

  9. eternalism

    The theory that every moment in time exists at once and the “passage” of time is just a quirk of how we humans experience it.

  10. time

    As the ancient Greeks knew, time is not just one thing.