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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. Right Speech

    > Monks, a statement endowed with five factors is well-spoken, not ill-spoken.

  2. The Eightfold Path

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  3. bioregionalism

    Bioregionalism is an economic model proposing that aligning economic and political activity with ecological boundaries (e.g.

  4. regenerative economy

    > A Regenerative Economy is one where all economic activity strengthens the health of natural, human, and economic systems it depends on.

  5. capitalism

    As the "ism" in its name suggests, capitalism is primarily a _belief_ system, not an economic one, and it is the belief that whatever produces the most money is morally right.

  6. universal basic income

    [Universal basic income](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income) (UBI) is a proposal to mitigate [[Poverty]] and [[inequality]] by which the government provides direct payments to all citizens.

  7. marginal utility is increasing amid scarcity

    Couched in economic terms, this is the recognition that the further away you are from having enough of something, the less incentive you have to get incrementally more of it.

  8. through line

    In whitewater rafting, the through line is the safest path through the rapids.

  9. Parenting

    > Your children are not your children.

  10. maintenance

    > My heart is moved by all I cannot save: