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2023-09-15

• I take back what I said about [[Subconscious]] being completely absent of politics - there is a nod towards them by Gordon in [[Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years]]:

  • "We have planetary challenges ahead: climate change, global pandemics, mass extinctions, increasing geopolitical tension… We need to learn how to think together, with our planet, as a whole planet."
  • Still a bit weak ("let's think together" is not much of a position), but at least there's a recognition of environmental and social problems ("with our planet", "as a whole planet").

• Read: [[Decentralized and rooted in care: envisioning the digital infrastructures of the future]].

  • Coming out of discussions at the recent RightsCon in Costa Rica. Could be a source of another [[qualitative system dynamics model]] for [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Has a good list of initiatives, many from Latin America.

• [[The Magic of Small Databases]] is interesting to me from the perspective of sharing my catalogue of initiatives for [[Reclaim the stacks]].

• [[Digital technologies are an important part of movement infrastructure]]

  • A claim on the [[Numun Fund]] homepage.

• The qualitative system dynamics model used in [[A leverage points analysis of a qualitative system dynamics model for climate change adaptation in agriculture]] was built using a triangulation process from individual models. I'll read more about that, seems kind of what I'm trying to do in [[Reclaim the stacks]].

• Friday, 09/15/23 ** 16:55 I wonder if some of the people responsible for bringing the most joy to the most people are the people who run social media animal accounts ** 17:31 At a B2B SaaS company, the work you do day-to-day is not publicly visible unless you're working on marketing tools.

Make as much public work as you can in your free time to compensate. Don't share the same knowledge - that's a breach of contract - but leverage the same skills. Learn and do better. Improve what you do inside and outside of work with your free time. Work more and more and more when it's dark out. ** 17:35 Haters will tell you to avoid looking at the world's best work and comparing yourself to it. How will you ever get there if you can't understand the gap between your skills and theirs? Dive into the work of people who are the best in their fields. Understand what makes them tick. Pick another lane and do better.