2021-08-15

• Read: [[The Hammer - Bill Gates wants your money]]

  • [[Bill Gates]] and his climate fund - it's not a benevolent gift, it's an investment with an expected return.
  • There is a [[Bezos Earth Fund]]!?

• Picking out some choice quotes from [[The Left Hand of Darkness]].

• Read: Working Around Post Kinds Plugin Lock-In – Interdependent Thoughts

  • I need to do something like this, too.

• Perhaps obvious but a nice little lightbulb flash for me, was that [[systems thinking]] appears to generally be a recent incarnation / labelling of (a particular part of?) [[cybernetics]]. Makes reading on cybernetics feel less like learning a dead language, and makes systems thinking feel a bit more weighty.

• Whenever I get that stab of feeling like there's too many ideas to explore, too many books to read, too little time to do it in, I remind myself not to turn to productivity systems, efficiency improvements and the like, but to [[knowledge sharing]] and [[communities of practice]], and remind myself that you don't need to know it all, knowing things is not just an individual pursuit but a collective endeavour.

• [[Biology of love]]

• Listened: [[]].

  • Politics is failing our home, the [[biosphere]], massively. The biosphere and climate change needs to be at the centre of [[governance]]. [[Systems thinking]] is a means to do this.
  • Enjoyed this. Sounds like a good book.

• I wonder if I should be using [[Org Cite]] in some way.