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.
334 Notes
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grief
> Grief, for example, is the occasion for acknowledging the value of that which has been experienced.
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wildness
> There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild.
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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.
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unconscious bias
Refers to the mental shortcuts our brains take to simplify the world, especially when we're under pressure.
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Limits to Growth
A [[systems traps|systems archetype]] describing how when a growing system encounters a novel constraint that slows growth, it is tempting to double-down and invest even more resources in what led to past growth, when what's really needed is to divert resources to understanding and avoiding this new constraint.
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judgment
We humans have inherited the tendency to judge pretty much everything around us as good or bad.
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What I'm doing about climate change
It's important to recognize that [100 corporations are responsible for 71% of all greenhouse gas emissions](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change).
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climate change
I trust the evidence of my own experience, [the science](https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/) and [delegates from 196 nations of Earth](https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement) that human-induced climate change is a real, urgent, and accelerating crisis that demands concerted, systemic action on the part of humanity.
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time
As the ancient Greeks knew, time is not just one thing.
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nostalgia
Nostalgia is the sentimental longing for the way you think things used to be.