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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. 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.

  2. Increases in efficiency tend to increase rather than decrease consumption

    Increasing the efficiency of using a resource for the sake of conserving it often backfire by increasing the demand for it.

  3. artificial intelligence

    ## Criticism of generative AI

  4. depression

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

  5. Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

    A quote from _The Dispossessed_.

  6. consumerism

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

  7. 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?

  8. meditation

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

  9. play

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

  10. Gardening

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