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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.

339 Notes

  1. 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.

  2. Live your values

    ## Values are what you sacrifice for

  3. The Eightfold Path

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  4. Buddhism

    An axial age Religion begun by Siddhartha Gautama in the 6th century BCE.

  5. right livelihood

    We all need to work to live, but _right livelihood_ means choosing work that, at the very least, does not cause harm to ourselves or others (shouldn't the Hippocratic Oath apply to every profession?) In a 21st-century capitalism economy, this is easier said than done.

  6. 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.

  7. Enough

    > Enough is so vast a sweetness, I suppose it never occurs, only pathetic counterfeits.

  8. Legibility

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

  9. Seeing Like a State

    A [[book]] by James C.

  10. 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.