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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.

336 Notes

  1. Legibility

    The observation that things for which a system has no concept do not exist as far as the system is concerned.

  2. Seeing Like a State

    A [[book]] by James C.

  3. emotion

    > An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world… In every waking moment, your brain uses past experience, organized as concepts, to guide your actions and give your sensations meaning.

  4. grief

    > Grief, for example, is the occasion for acknowledging the value of that which has been experienced.

  5. wildness

    > There are two sides: the agents of waste and the lovers of the wild.

  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. unconscious bias

    Refers to the mental shortcuts our brains take to simplify the world, especially when we're under pressure.

  8. 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.

  9. judgment

    We humans have inherited the tendency to judge pretty much everything around us as good or bad.

  10. 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).