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hodlbod · 20w
I love this, the metaphor of growing things is very telling. If you want any force beyond you to change, you have to cultivate it, not impose yourself on it. A Pattern Language is already on my list,...
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Mel @belikewater
A Pattern Language is the best place to start - It’s one of the few books I go back to over and over - I esp love the chapter on mosaic neighbourhoods !
I also really like the 4 part series he has called “The Nature of Order” - they are kind of expensive now - hard to get - but I find myself going back to them over and over.

Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life
Book 2: The Process of Creating Life
Book 3: A Vision of a Living World
Book 4: The Luminous Ground

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hodlbod · 20w
I was listening to Episode 6 of Vervaeke's "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis", in which he talks about the distinction between cause and condition. A billiard ball can move another one by transferrin...
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Vervaekes series is great. I think about this a lot. In my head I call it “conditions of emergence”.

You can’t make things happen by directly focusing on them in the specific, you need to create the environment for them to emerge.
Anything natural requires this. It’s also the only way to cultivate what is authentic behaviour. Create the conditions of sincerity & people will emerge as they are. This is also the easiest way to understand any behavioural outcome from an existing system, to study the conditions/ space/ environment it creates. It also speak a lot to Christopher Alexander’s work on why the way physical spaces are built (cities, buildings, homes etc)
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Mel · 20w
*Matter - why how physical spaces are built matter
hodlbod · 20w
I love this, the metaphor of growing things is very telling. If you want any force beyond you to change, you have to cultivate it, not impose yourself on it. A Pattern Language is already on my list, but I wanted to ask what your favorite Christopher Alexander book is?
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The outrage about the core dev funding is strange to me. Of course every kind of covert and overt power player is going to try or has tried to control something as powerful and technically revolutionary as Bitcoin. The point of bitcoin, and its sufficiently decetralized open ecosystem, is that it is built to withstand this.

Any other system would be irrevocably corrupted by even a tiny percentage of the kind of pressure and control tactics that has been thrown at Bitcoin over the years and yet it prevails. More than that, it continues to grow in reach and thrive.

The easiest most accessible way to counter balance sick and corrupt systems is to build on, support and grow open and decentralized ones.
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nobody · 22w
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