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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. effective altruism

    Focused on evidence-based [[Philanthropy]], the EA movement comprises individuals and organizations trying to do the most demonstrable good in the world.

  2. stillness

    > The path to all great things passes through silence.

  3. systems ethics

    I'm not sure if this is a field, but it's the name I've given to the intersection of [[ethics]] and [[systems thinking]].

  4. leadership

    ## Great leaders give no orders

  5. Becoming Animal

    A [[book]] I'm reading by David Abram.

  6. Only hurt people hurt people

    [Variously attributed](https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/09/15/hurt/), this is the idea that when people lash out, it's because they themselves are hurting and incapable of communicating their need to stop hurting more usefully.

  7. 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:

  8. poetry

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

  9. race is an invention

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

  10. Poverty

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