# 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](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/08/working-around-post-kinds-plugin-lock-in/)
    -   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: [[Ray Ison and Ed Straw, "The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking: Governance in a Climate Emergency"]].
    -   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.