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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. informatation hazard

    A [term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hazard) coined by philosopher Nick Bostrum for "a risk that arises from the dissemination of (true) information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm." In other words, truths that should not be known.

  2. inequality

    Economic 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.

  3. Goliath’s Curse

    A book by Luke Kemp, subtitled "The History and Future of Societal Collapse."

  4. power corrupts

    - holding power erodes [[empathy]], moreso the higher you are in a dominance hierarchy

  5. the dark triad

    A set of three antisocial personality traits that often go together:

  6. facing a wall for nine years

    面壁九年 (_menpeki kunen_), a [[zen]] phrase literally translated as "facing a wall for nine years," refers to a story about [[wu wei|the futility of acting when the time is wrong]], and the importance of waiting for the right time.

  7. Right Speech

    From the Abhayarājakumāra Sutta (Majjhima Nikāya 58) ("Tathagata" is how the Buddha referred to himself):

  8. disability

    ## Disability isn't just a condition, but a societal expectation of performance

  9. dharma

    > Etymologically, it comes from the Sanskrit _dhr_-, meaning to hold or to support, thus referring to the law that sustains things—from one’s life to society, and to the universe at large.

  10. attention

    > How astonishing to remember that nothing has inherent color, that color is not a property of objects but of the light that falls upon them, reflected back.