The State of the Culture, 2024<br /> by [[Ted Gioia]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:53:09

Things Aren’t Going Donald Trump’s Way - The Atlantic<br /> by [[Jonathan Lemire]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-18T08:39:4

Spam's mass production benefited US's wartime industrial expansion The need to feed both troops and civilians drove the scaling of processed food manufacturing Spam is influenced by industrialization and become a symbol of US food tech Reflects how war spurred economic recovery and transformed US industry and food system

Spam made use of cheap and discarded meat reflected Depression-era frugality; made meat more accessible to lower-income populations

Shows how vitamin C discovery was used to boost orange sales and link them to health and modern living --> advertising methods

Critique of the agricultural system that burned food during widespread hunger

Reveals blatant exploitation and racism toward Chinese workers, who were later excluded by law

Reflects how workers’ physical movements were controlled to maximize fruit quality, showing labor as mechanized and disciplined.

The AAA reduce surplus to increase farm economy and production efforts --> burning of oranges and other food supply (What an odd way of thinking but ok)

https://web.archive.org/web/20250719082633/https://paulkedrosky.com/honey-ai-capex-ate-the-economy/ by Paul Kedrosky On the enormous capital expenditures for AI related data centers, at the level of 2% US GDP. A volume big enough to influence overall economy / hide other currents in economy.

for - paper - climate crisis - rebound effect - paper - title - Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound effects: A review of the evidence and its implications - from - post - LinkedIn - rebound effect - https://hyp.is/yz4m_ldBEfC18Bfg0RPf2w/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7346027213776953344/

https://web.archive.org/web/20250702121628/https://theecologist.org/2023/nov/01/when-idiot-savants-do-climate-economics

William Nordhaus is the source of generally accepted modeling of the economic cost of climate urgency and inaction, yet increasingly his models are seen as wildly wrong, not accounting for asymmetric risks and uncertainty (and using GDP as main yardstick it seems). Reads like a linear modeling which disregards cascades and non-linear complex causality chains.

Yoose, B., & Shockey, N. (2024). Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink (Version v1). SPARC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13886473

Abstract

Navigating Risk in Vendor Data Privacy Practices: An Analysis of Springer Nature's SpringerLink documents a variety of practices that undermine library privacy standards. SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Combined with our 2023 report on Elsevier’s ScienceDirect platform, this analysis illustrates the wide range of privacy risks inherent in the business models and practices in the academic scholarship marketplace.

Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in our public website analysis). While the specific privacy concerns posed by SpringerLink are different, our analysis reiterates the findings from our ScienceDirect report: that user tracking that would be unthinkable in a physical library setting now happens routinely through publisher platforms.

While this analysis and recommended actions are grounded in the library context, these findings will raise pressing issues for faculty, administrators, and policymakers to consider as well. The report closes with suggested actions that libraries can take over both the short and long term to address vendor privacy risks.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22+mixed+economy+%22%2C%22+free+market+%22%2C+%22capitalism%22&year_start=1917&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

Use of capitalism rises as mixed economy declines

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22+mixed+economy+%22%2C%22+free+market+%22&year_start=1917&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3

The use of "mixed economy" in texts according to n-gram viewer was cut in half from 1990 to 2000.

• Taming inflation (a persistent goal of the elites, by [[Thomas Piketty]]) pushed up the pay-gap.
• Attack on Worker's rights & Tax cuts were intensified after the elites & arms lobby managed the [[Kennedy assassination]] coup d'etat.
• Deregulation accelerated after the Nixon's / Kissinger's [[petrodollar]] deal spurred globalism.

Nice diagram showing the Pay Gap (wages vs productivity) widened circa 1970. Probably petrodollar contributed to that.

Unfortunately this 2017 study on productivity vs wages (pdf) does not reach back to 1970, to the Kissinger/Nixon deal with S.Arabia for petrodollars.

That book, [[Monopoly Capital]], eventually expresses the principle marxist idea of [[surplus value]], the one Jack London famously had advocated about, specifically that by distributing only 50% of their profits as wages, capitalists provoke the next Crisis, hence Capitalism is unstable (coupled with the diminithing returns of capital).

The Russian marxists knew since the 1920's that the answer to these capitalistic contradictions is Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

Capitalism needs ([[Graeber]]) Bullshit Jobs, as Baran & Sweezy claimed in their 1966 book "Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order".

for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki

for - economy is within ecology - David Suzuki

for - adjacency - attention economy - NOT people-centered - competing apps - status quo internet - JOIN ME

OK, so we still have how much of the economy represented then?

Die EU bezahlt Russland für fossile Brennstoffe mehr, als sie der Ukraine an Finanzhilfen zur Verfügung stellt. 2024 bezog sie für 22 Milliarden Euro Öl und Gas aus Russland und zahlte 19 Milliarden an die Ukraine, wobei Militär- und humanitäre Hilfe nicht einbezogen sind. Insgesamt betrugen die Einnahmen Russlands aus dem Export fossiler Brennstoffe im dritten Jahr der Invasion der ganzen Ukraine 242 Milliarden Euro. Der Guardian berichtet über einen neuen Report des Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report

Bericht: https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/eu-imports-of-russian-fossil-fuels-in-third-year-of-invasion-surpass-financial-aid-sent-to-ukraine/

well, here comes the a.i. in handy. admittingly, i welcomed this perspective in the nineties along with piratebay, napster and so on. but i had to realize, that this still is social science fiction: we have the technic but not the economy for this: under the given, we are killing our idols. luckily, we just can not use spotify and buy their albums, no?

for - climate crisis - impact of Trump tariff strategy - increasing economic and carbon inequality and precarity for the masses - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec

// - SUMMARY - Richard J Murphy provides us with a big picture of Trump's objective in his calculated Tariff strategy - It's not that it makes no sense and is a strategy of a madman - On the contrary, he has a very calculated and maniacal strategy that will result in significantly increasing the wealth of the elites - By creating high tariffs, he will bring about a global economic crash - Like the 2008 and 2020 crash, central banks will print trillions of dollars of money and handout bailouts - It is the elites who will receive these bailouts and inflate the value of their assets - This will - substantially increase the wealth of the rich - substantially increase the precarity of the vast majority of people - increase global inequality - financial inequality and - carbon inequality - This increased precarity is bad news for the climate crisis as a precarious population have less flexibility in reducing their carbon footprint and are more dependent than ever on whatever remain job and resources they still have - Given we have this knowledge of the elite's hidden strategy, can we the people intervene in any way? - We need to have an understanding of how elites see the world - The entire worldview of externalizing investment as a game of accumulation must be understood deeply - in order to find leverage points for rapid system change

//

for - quote - economic crashes are profitable for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - from - Youtube - Trump wants to crash to benefit the ultra wealthy - Trump's planning to crash the global economy - Richard J Murphy - 2024, Dec

quote - economic crashes are good for the elites - Trump plans to crash the global economy so that subsequent Quantitative Easing bailouts will inflate value of assets of the rich - Trump expect if he creates another world financial crisis - he believes there will be a bailout and - he believes that he and his cohort the world's wealthy will benefit from there being vastly more money in circulation with very little to use it on except the inflation in the value of the assets that they own - That is what he's banking on - This is literally I think his Economic Policy - This is what he expects as a consequence of his trade Wars - He doesn't care that we suffer - He won't care about the countries in the developing world - the vast majority of countries in the world in fact who have their debts denominated in dollars who will suffer enormously as a result of their struggle to find the means to repay those debts - As for the time being, the dollar is inflated in value and interest rates are too high he won't care that people are thrown out of work - All he cares about is the inflation in asset values and that is what the whole of the world economy is now geared to create - for the benefit of a few - at cost to the vast majority - Trump's Economic Policy makes sense if you see it in this way - He runs a bailout economic strategy that is going to work for him and his friends because - it will result when the world economy crashes and yet more money being made available through the central banking system to inflate the value of the assets that they own - And they'll say thank you very much we did very nicely out of that when can we have another crash?

for - examples - closed source IP externalises cost - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20

examples - closed source IP externalises cost - closed source circular economy is much more challenging than open source circular economy because - if inputs are kept secret and proprietary, reuse of End of life products are difficult to break down and reuse as input in a re-manufacturing process - closed IP creates fragmented and completing de facto standards that make interoperability impossible

for - nature positive - ECOnomy is part of ECOlogy - David Suzuki - Xue & Bakshi, 2022

for - further research - Karl Polyani - book - The Great Transformation - Lib-Lab dynamics - Kondratieff waves - cycles of political economy - from Michel Bauwens - lib-lab dynamics - Kondratiefff waves - Kondratieff cycles

for - trefoil of - people - government - economy - Kojin Karatani

for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system

definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!

1:06:53 The true constraints are the resources that are available (and if those resources will co-create together for the good of the WHOLE).

1:08:08 What is the Economy of Marlborough (for example)

1:05:36 Instead of asking DONORS for money, a community can make its own money and donors can contribute to a healthy local economy as a participant rather than a funder

Key observation, ecology surrounds everything. Vgl [[De Europese dataspace als eenheidsmarkt 20200120144254]] waar mensen niet snappen dat je er per def in zit.

Comes from [[On the Emergence of an Ecological Class by Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz]] january 2023. Schultz is a Danish sociologist, Uni CPH and Aarhus School of Achitecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSoeQSegRW4&list=PL3NaIVgSlAVKWUrFOkDW7AEjXaiPQu_IM 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Burning Out on YouTube

for - steady state economy - when we hit physical constraints - a major percentage of our economy needs to be non-physical

for - adjacency - question - degrowth? - circular economy? - steady state - regenerative processes

adjacency - between - degrowth - circular economy - regenerative practices - steady state economy - adjacency relationship - Where did the 75% number come from? Is there anything special about it? Is it some kind of a limit from the model? - Would circular and regenerative practices play an important role in this? - This would seem to indicate a degrowth type scenario. Degrowth is a misnomer, it doesn't imply continual economic downward trend, - but is specifically addressing a the decrease of physical human economic activity - that is responsible for our excessive pollution load / biodiversity loss - to levels necessary to avoid the worst impacts - It isn't explicitly stated that the other half of degrowth is growth of non-physical economic activity that nurtures and nourishes humanity

for - progress trap - abstraction - the ECONOMY! - abstracted and separated from nature

for - key insight - demographic shift will have major implications on U.S. economy, politics and social infrastructure.

for - question - Planet Critical podcast - What is the role of language in creating an ecocidal economy?

Lawrence Levine<br /> The Opening of the American Mind (1996)<br /> note the coverage of "how our memory should function"

for - geopolitics - Russia war economy strategy

geopolitics - Russia's war economy strategy - Putin is moving the country in this direction - following Trotsky to turn the entire economy into a war economy and following Lenin to use brute force to coerce the population to join the cause - However, looking at this basic economic game analysis of the Russia Ukraine war, it does not look feasible -

for - Russian economy - domestic problems

reference - see interview with Russian war domestic economy commentator Kostantin Samoilov - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FXX3zU5QNvCw%2F&group=world

for - answer - size of a digital nation - definition - economy of scope

answer - size of a digital nation - In contrast to nation states with the concept of economy of scale, - in Network states, we have the concept of economy of scope

definition - economy of scope - for small group through strong alignment of interests and values, to foster close kinship - then expand to other similarly aligned groups with synergies between groups

A 'typewriter rebellion' is underway. Here's what that means and why it's attracting kids from 2024-04-15 from Joe Dana / 12 News / Phoenix, AZ

Since 1908 there's also been the move towards small digestible social media which increases the dial on repetition and duplication, but the sense of flow created by dopamine hits to be found in the attention economy make these difficult things to overcome.

There is a range of reading lengths and levels of argumentation which can be found in these various ranges.

Some will complain about the death of books or the rise of articles or the rise of social media and the attention economy. Where is balance to be found.

Kaiser speaks to these issues in ¶75-79. One must wonder what Kaiser would have thought about the bite-sized nature of social media and it's distracting nature?

Ongweso Jr., Edward. “The Miseducation of Kara Swisher: Soul-Searching with the Tech ‘Journalist.’” The Baffler, March 29, 2024. https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso.

ᔥ[[Pete Brown]] in Exploding Comma

Harnett, Sam. “Words Matter: How Tech Media Helped Write Gig Companies into Existence.” SSRN Scholarly Paper. Rochester, NY, August 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3668606.

The pushing of the attention economy broadly prevents society from facing its most important problems. We're constantly distracted and are ultimately unable to focus on what is really important.

Eine neue Studie der Universität für Bodenkultur beziffert erstmals, wieviel Kohlenstoff zwischen 1900 und 2015 langfristig oder kurzfristig in menschlichen Artefakten wie Gebäuden gespeichert wurde. Die Menge des dauerhaft gespeicherten Kohlenstoffs hat sich seit 1900 versechzehnfacht. Sie reicht aber bei weitem nicht aus, um die globale Erhitzung wirksam zu beeinflussen. Die Möglichkeiten, Boot in Gebäuden zu nutzen, um der Atmosphäre CO2 zu entziehen, werden bisher nicht genutzt. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000208522/co2-entnahme-durch-holzbau-ist-bisher-nicht-relevant-fuer-den-klimaschutz

Studie: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad236b

Die EU hat 24 deutsche Wasserstoffprojekte genehmigt. Insgesamt werden 8 Milliarden Euro investiert, davon etwas mehr als die Hälfte vom Staat. https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/wasserstoff-eu-genehmigt-deutsche-wasserstoff-projekte-staat-gibt-46-milliarden-euro/100015276.html

for - circular economy - design - furniture - circular economy - private - furniture

compare - Delft university - circular kitchen - Stykka

Eine Empfehlung des Zusammenschlusses nationaler Akademien der Wissenschaften und eine zusammenfassende Studie zum globalen Plastiksystem empfehlen die Reduktion des Verbrauchs um 50% und eine Reihe weiterer Schritte wie das fast vollständige Recycling von Plastik und die Produktion aus Biomaterialien. Anlass sind die Verhandlungen zum internationalen Plastikabkommen. Plastikproduktion und Verbrauch führen schon jetzt – abgesehen von zahlreichen anderen negativen Folgen – zu Emissionen von ca einer Gigatonne CO2 im Jahr. Ohne drastische Änderungen wird sich diese Menge vervielfachen. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000205422/wissenschaft-fordert-radikale-abkehr-von-herkoemmlicher-plastikproduktion

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06939-z.epdf?sharing_token=-UPbgMcUGHbtK4Uscd0XZdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MMo2Wo13ejTIFhNPD522LiogzEIVWxfHy01bK9MbFLdv59qFdQ73NDNguF2Bf0icTMUsLgWI2hE3OyG7VDGuf_3LODlHS0WEkABpLs5LAtVCiW0_JyVU7n_UL0EP7LiRS0q6s0fIpcIjaEfVFyDe4cez-4KdfAAphy-2weBUevmIZv9sURtFCEk7-LtaOTCmM%3D&tracking_referrer=www.derstandard.de

I know the idea "gift economy" was around in the late 2000's and even more prevalent in the teens, but not sure where it originated. This is one of the earliest settings I've seen (within tech).

for - silver economy - stats - silver economy

stats - silver economy - 2024 - 7 trillion yuan ($982 billion USD) - 6 % GDP - 2035 - 30 trillion yuan ($4.2 trillion USD) - 10% GDP

question - silver economy - climate change impacts? transition impacts?

for - circular economy - building - excavation waste - circular economy - construction - excavation waste - key insight - repurpose excavation waste as building material

key insight - She makes an pretty important observation about the inefficiency of current linear construction process - The excavation part requires enormous amounts of energy, and the earth that is excavated is treated as waste that must be disposed of AT A COST! - Instead, with a paradigm shift of earth as a valuable building resource, the excavation PRODUCES the building materials! - This is precisely what BC Material's circular economy business model is and it makes total sense!<br /> - With a simple paradigm and perspective shift, waste is suddenly transformed into a resource! - waste2resource - waste-to-resource

new meme - Waste-2-Resource

for - circular economy - kitchen - circular economy - furniture - circular kitchen - Stykka - modular furniture

comment - sadly, it's not open source, but this is to be expected with most mainstream businesses. - the problem is in trying to protect one's IP and look after self-interest, it scales very slowly. - we need open-source, circular economy, open-source, circular furniture and open-source circular kitchen

for - Biofold - circular economy - bio-furniture - Space10

Excessive regulation is harmful.

45% der CO₂-Emissionen entstehen durch die Produktion von Materialien. Der Standard berichtet über eine Podiumsdiskussion in Wien, aus der hervorgehen, das Recycling allein die ökologischen Probleme, die dadurch entstehen, nicht löst. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000203446/warum-recycling-kein-ausweg-aus-der-materialschlacht-ist

Die 20 größten Unternehmen der Welt sind in den vergangenen Jahren noch mächtiger geworden. Das zeigt eine neue Studie mehrerer NGOs. Diese Unternehmen können Marktpreise und Produktlinien diktieren, weil sie fast keine Konkurrenz haben. Sie betreiben intensives Lobbying. https://taz.de/Warnung-vor-Macht-der-Grossunternehmen/!5986399/

• for: elephants in the room - financial industry at the heart of the polycrisis, polycrisis - key role of finance industry, Marjorie Kelly, Capitalism crisis, Laura Flanders show, book - Wealth Supremacy - how the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Captialism Drive Today's Crises

• Summary

  • This talk really emphasizes the need for the Stop Reset Go / Deep Humanity Wealth to Wellth program
  • Interviewee Marjorie Kelly started Business Ethics magainze in 1987 to show the positive side of business After 30 years, she found that it was still tinkering at the edges. Why? - because it wasn't addressing the fundamental issue.
  • Why there hasn't been noticeable change in spite of all these progressive efforts is because we avoided questioning the fundamental assumption that maximizing returns to shareholders and gains to shareholder portfolios is good for people and planet.**** It turns out that it isn't. It's fundamentally bad for civilization and has played a major role in shaping today's polycrisis.
  • Why wealth supremacy is entangled with white supremacy
  • Financial assets are the subject
    • Equity and bonds use to be equal to GDP in the 1950s.
    • Now it's 5 times as much
  • Financial assets extracts too much from common people
  • Question: Families are swimming in debt. Who owns all this financial debt? ...The financial elites do.

• meme

  • wealth supremacy and white supremacy are entangled

• for: book - wealth supremacy - 7 myths, 7 myths of Capitalism, capital bias, definition - capital bias

• DESCRIPTION: 7 MYTHS of CAPITALISM

  • The Myth of Maximization
    • example of absurdity of maximization
      • Bill Gates had $10 billion. Then he invested it and got $300 billion. There's no limit to how much wealth an individual can accumulate. It is absurd.
  • Myth of the Income Statement
    • Gains to capital called profit is always to be increased and
    • Gains of labor is called an expense, is always to be decreased
  • Myth of Materiality (also called capital bias)
  • definition: capital bias
    • If something impacts capital, it matters
    • If something impacts society or ecology, it doesn't matter
  • With the capital bias, only accumulating more capital matters. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. This is how most accountants and CFO's view the world.

• quote: Laura Flanders

  • The capital is what matters. We're aiming for more capital and nothing else really matters. That's the operating system of the economy. So the real world is immaterial to this world of wealth as held in stocks and shares and financial instruments.

• for: polycrisis - US political election interference due to threat of net zero transition to Russian economy

Switzerland inequality kicked in ~1999 roughly when they abandoned the [[Golden Rule]], as hinted by Kevin Tartis in X.

, Canada, Australia, Mongolia, S.Africa, Yemen, Western EU and Greece are the best. Strange map...

Intergenerational mobility is, expectedly, lower in the US where social net is low and segregation high.

• annotate
• for: emissions reduction - circular economy

We need to talk about renewables - Part 2: Using a circular economy approach to redesign renewable energy infrastructure

We need to talk about renewables - Part 1: Why renewable energy infrastructure needs to be built using a circular economy approach

• for: annotate, doughnut economy critique, r3.0, Ralph Thurn

• for: explainer video - system change, not climate change, Weall, Wellbeing Economy Alliance

First Fully Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade Rolls Out

• for: regenerative food - certification, JOOLES, JustOne Organics Living Economy System, Holochain - food supply chain certification

Jacqueline Cramer on Network governance to realise the circular economy.

"The only economy to embrace is the circular economy - but it's not happening fast enough"

• for: Johan Rockstrom - wellbeing economy, wellbeing economy, green growth, degrowth, question, question - Johan Rockstrom - green growth or degrowth?
• question
  • Does Johan Rockstrom advocate for a green economy or degrowth?
  • He would seem to be arguing for green growth as degrowth, if not done extremely carefully, can result in a drop in wellbeing.
  • How does he see this taking place when the elites perceive that they have the most (at least materially) to give up? Is there a contradiction here?

Link to the PDF has moved.

Italien ist einer der 5 strategischen Korridore der EU für die Versorgung mit Wasserstoff. Interview mit Stefano Venier, der die Gesellschaft Snam zur Überwachung von Gastransport und -Speicherung leitet. Venier bringt bekannte Argumente zur Verwendung von Gas als Übergangstechnologie. Er sieht für Italien besondere Möglichkeiten bei der Versorgung mit Wasserstoff aus nordafrikanischen Ländern und der Speicherung von durch CCS gewonnenen CO₂.

https://www.repubblica.it/economia/2023/07/30/news/energia_futuro_idrogeno_co2_intervista_venier_snam-409424118/?ref=drla-f-1

Basically, you must be unique. You can't compete when you learn exactly the same as everyone else. The education system sets up to fail and makes you a modern slave.

Regarding Noam Chomsky's words about Greenspan.

This is also mentioned in https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/jul/21/facebook-posts/social-media-meme-says-alan-greenspan-said-insecur/

Noam Chomsky on Alan Greenspan's ideas on 'worker insecurity'.

• Comment
  • Question
    • How much material would be freed up if it was SHARED instead of hoarded by one person?
    • related questions
      • what kind of behavioral change is required to reach an impactful level of sharing?
      • in a sense, public-instead-of-private
        • transportation
        • etc
      • is the ultimate expression of private converted to public

reply to u/bestlunchtoday at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/12gadut/benefits_of_sharing_permanent_notes/

I love the diversity of ideas here! So many different ways to do it all and perspectives on the pros/cons. It's all incredibly idiosyncratic, just like our notes.

I probably default to a far extreme of sharing the vast majority of my notes openly to the public (at least the ones taken digitally which account for probably 95%). You can find them here: https://hypothes.is/users/chrisaldrich.

Not many people notice or care, but I do know that a small handful follow and occasionally reply to them or email me questions. One or two people actually subscribe to them via RSS, and at least one has said that they know more about me, what I'm reading, what I'm interested in, and who I am by reading these over time. (I also personally follow a handful of people and tags there myself.) Some have remarked at how they appreciate watching my notes over time and then seeing the longer writing pieces they were integrated into. Some novice note takers have mentioned how much they appreciate being able to watch such a process of note taking turned into composition as examples which they might follow. Some just like a particular niche topic and follow it as a tag (so if you were interested in zettelkasten perhaps?) Why should I hide my conversation with the authors I read, or with my own zettelkasten unless it really needed to be private? Couldn't/shouldn't it all be part of "The Great Conversation"? The tougher part may be having means of appropriately focusing on and sharing this conversation without some of the ills and attention economy practices which plague the social space presently.

There are a few notes here on this post that talk about social media and how this plays a role in making them public or not. I suppose that if I were putting it all on a popular platform like Twitter or Instagram then the use of the notes would be or could be considered more performative. Since mine are on what I would call a very quiet pseudo-social network, but one specifically intended for note taking, they tend to be far less performative in nature and the majority of the focus is solely on what I want to make and use them for. I have the opportunity and ability to make some private and occasionally do so. Perhaps if the traffic and notice of them became more prominent I would change my habits, but generally it has been a net positive to have put my sensemaking out into the public, though I will admit that I have a lot of privilege to be able to do so.

Of course for those who just want my longer form stuff, there's a website/blog for that, though personally I think all the fun ideas at the bleeding edge are in my notes.

Since some (u/deafpolygon, u/Magnifico99, and u/thiefspy; cc: u/FastSascha, u/A_Dull_Significance) have mentioned social media, Instagram, and journalists, I'll share a relevant old note with an example, which is also simultaneously an example of the benefit of having public notes to be able to point at, which u/PantsMcFail2 also does here with one of Andy Matuschak's public notes:

[Prominent] Journalist John Dickerson indicates that he uses Instagram as a commonplace: https://www.instagram.com/jfdlibrary/ here he keeps a collection of photo "cards" with quotes from famous people rather than photos. He also keeps collections there of photos of notes from scraps of paper as well as photos of annotations he makes in books.

It's reasonably well known that Ronald Reagan shared some of his personal notes and collected quotations with his speechwriting staff while he was President. I would say that this and other similar examples of collaborative zettelkasten or collaborative note taking and their uses would blunt u/deafpolygon's argument that shared notes (online or otherwise) are either just (or only) a wiki. The forms are somewhat similar, but not all exactly the same. I suspect others could add to these examples.

And of course if you've been following along with all of my links, you'll have found yourself reading not only these words here, but also reading some of a directed conversation with entry points into my own personal zettelkasten, which you can also query as you like. I hope it has helped to increase the depth and level of the conversation, should you choose to enter into it. It's an open enough one that folks can pick and choose their own path through it as their interests dictate.

Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/lV19ytGBEe2ynWMu34UKUg

This depreciation is done at the lowest level of exchange and caused the system to collapse rather quickly. What level is our current exchange done at such that the inequalities are pushed up multiple levels making the system seem more stable? How is instability introduced? How could it be minimized?

Our current system is valued both by time and skill (using the measure of payment per hour).

Compare this with salespeople who are paid on commission rather than on an hourly basis. They are then using their skill of sales ability and balancing time (and levels of chance) to create their outcomes, but at the same time, some of their work is built on the platform that sales management or the company provides. Who builds this and how do they get paid for it? Who provides sales leads? How is this calculated into the system costs?

How do these ideas fit into the Bullshit Jobs thesis?

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Circular Economy for the Energy Transition

!- alignment : Michaux's vision of industrial transformation and many others working in the commons - relocalization, dense local circular economies, community owned for democratization of production - in addition, commons theory of cosmolocal production networks all these relocalized dense production hubs together for information sharing efficacy

!- overview : restructuring industry around an energy constrained future - redesign for circular colocated factory networks - output waste streams of one plant feeds input feedstock of nearby plants - relocalize to minimze unnecessary transportation

Το ανακαλυψα από τον Alexander Clapp about για τους πλούσιους ελληνες εφοπλιστές που διασκεδαζαν στο θωρηκτό Αφερωφ ενω οι πολιτες πεινούσαν.