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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. 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.

  2. third place

    Any source of identity and [[community]] outside of the home (the "first place") and workplace (the "second place").

  3. hope

    > The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. exploration

    > "We shall not cease from exploration

  7. 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.

  8. Goliath’s Curse

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

  9. power corrupts

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

  10. the dark triad

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