I would recommend Turn the Ship Around! by David Marquet, former submarine captain who effected a significant turnaround on their nuclear submarine. He empowered his chiefs to take more ownership and responsibility and the rest of the crew. I think it reflects more realistically how things go and I really appreciate his side comments at getting pissed off at subordinates and the allure of being the "captain in charge giving orders". He also mentions the need for technical competence and also clear direction from leadership for this to work.
As a son of Korean entrepreneur immigrants, I can say that many of them work less than minimum wage per hour at their business. These bets can work out but it can also be worse than their employees.
Personally, I think it's a huge issue that many people are terrified of power. That drive just goes underground and comes out likely in unhealthy ways then whether it's self-denial or self-righteousness (aka canceling) others. How to address the problem of self-delusion is through wisdom practices and caring for others.
I also trained at the same place as Tasshin (hi tasshin!)
MLK Jr. also addressed the same phenomenon:
"Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly. You see, what happened is that some of our philosophers got off base. And one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites - polar opposites, so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love.
It was this misinterpretation that caused Nietzsche, who was a philosopher of the will to power, to reject the Christian concept of love. It was this same misinterpretation which induced Christian theologians to reject the Nietzschean philosophy of the will to power in the name of the Christian idea of love. Now, we've got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love. And this is what we must see as we move on. What has happened is that we have had it wrong and confused in our own country, and this has led Negro Americans in the past to seek their goals through power devoid of love and conscience. "
I've tried a lot of different things over decades. And, after countless experimentation, I'm still at the same place...
I store data all over the place.
I have Evernote for long book notes and tracking financial data.
I'm using notion right now as my base of notes for learning how to build a cabin (toggles and embedding videos is wonderful).
I tried to really use roam and its off-shots for a while but could never really get into it.
And i use a new txt file all the time. Anytime I don't know what I need or going to do. And 90% of the time, I never look at them again but they're all in my one synced folder.
At the end of the day, I keep thinking I'll settle on one solution but I'm doubtful that's ever going to be true.
So, you’re a note squirrel. So am I. I’ve stopped caring or stressing out about it. I just accept that I’m never going to be overly organized or systematic.
I do keep all of my notes in a /notes folder or sub folder so that fuzzy find works nicely. That’s the extent of my organization.
I'm a Joplin user but I've been slowly learning Obsidian too. Level1Techs [0] did a fantastic primer on Obsidian and gave a thoughtful reflection on the zettelkastan method [1]. Josh Duffney's youtube channel [2] on Obsidian is also worth the watch too.
The faithful are still on Roam. Others have moved to:
1. Obsidian: has bidirectional linking and knowledge graphs, is faster and better supported, but doesn't have the outlining structure that Roam is based on.
2. Logseq: basically an open source Roam with 90-95% feature parity and some cool stuff that is its own.
I don't think Dendron is a Roam clone. All notetaking apps of the new generation have certain similarities, but Dendron has a pretty different philosophy for how you should organize your notes.
Roam's about the block within an outline, interlinking and transclusion.
Dendron's core schtick is making traditional hierarchies easier to work with.
Like, with Roam a feelings of power scenario would be queries getting you subtrees from disparate outlines from which you pick out relevant trains of thought to synthesize your own writing, or just an outliner's ease in manipulating your text.
With Dendron it's more like, "oh, I've been thinking about this all wrong" and restructuring your notes so your new hierarchies reflect your new understanding.
Yeah, the app's built around a tree hierarchy like normal folders, but using dot namespacing (music.memes.ohno.rickroll.md) to make working with it more doable than with a file manager. I don't know if it's better, per se, but they have definite philosophy to their design, and it's explicitly against graphs and wikilinks as the be all end all solution to knowledge base organization.
i actually would love something like this but based on the site i can't tell exactly how it works. Do support tickets get created via a form or by emailing a support mailbox?
I use freshdesk currently for my org and want something better
i've been living in a rural area for years and suffering from poor internet. how in the world did you get unlimited 4g data for only $20? The mobile hotspot plans are all capped?
* Verizon: I have a standard unlimited family plan with 6 lines. Each additional line is a $20 connection fee. The rest is around $200 but that's static based upon the amount of lines you add. In practice it became a little more complicated. First convincing them to add an IMEI of a Cradlepoint modem/router to a standard cell plan. I initially just tried to plug in the SIM card but I got a notification through email that the device had changed and it wasn't supported. One call to support and the person on the phone said they don't support Cradlepoint. Second call to support and they said they would have to escalate. They sent me to a higher up in support that agreed to add the IMEI. Initially it didn't work but he did some troubleshooting with me on the phone and got it working. Then onto the data caps... Verizon has something like 10gb of unthrottled tethered data and unthrottled data otherwise. I won't post it here but there are technical ways of hiding the router traffic to make Verizon think that you are not tethering (hint, they use network hop counts, ttl).
* ATT: was much easier, I literally plugged in the sim card and it worked immediately. I'm using my company cell phone sim card but I believe they have similar family plans priced to that of Verizon. It's a little slower most places but totally different coverage map compared to Verizon so a nice combination. They aren't doing any throttling for me... but I usually don't use more than 50gb
The tragedy is the growing consensus that the world is going to shit and it's our fault. Even worse is that all this technology, social media, and so on isn't even making us more happy or fulfilled. Yet, most just sit on their hands not doing much at all. Content to eek out what comfort and pleasure we can get now and try our best to ignore the knowledge that devastation awaits us.
It's amazing that in tens of thousands of years, we've developed the power of gods yet have the same minds. And if anything our culture and values in many ways have gotten worse.
The solution to all of this mess isn't going to come from the same mindset that created the same problems (looking at you carbon capture tech).
What's needed most is an entire global shift in what we value and a concerted effort and funding to make that happen.
This comment seems a little inconsistent to me. You complain about the fact that everyone doesn't have the mindset to solve problems. Makes sense so far.
Then you say carbon capture tech isn't going to work because... it's too focused on solving problems constructively? What is wrong with the mindset of carbon capture tech, exactly? What is the right mindset to have? (But also, the idea that we can figure out what solutions work based on diagnosing the "mindset" of those that propose them, as opposed to analyzing the solution itself in detail, seems pretty silly to me. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy )
Admittedly i wasn't writing a through essay response. To elaborate, I'm saying that the exponential rise of technology coupled with the same exact type of mind our ancestors had 2,000 years ago is a significant source of the issue right now. The solution to create even more powerful technology to solve this problem will likely only lead to a bigger problem in the future.
What we don't spend relatively anywhere close to same level of energy and effort is creating, developing, funding ways to shape the human culture, values, and mind that underlies this relentless (and in many cases unfulfilling and self-destructive) pattern of looking to technology to solve everything.
It's a hard challenge for sure but I don't see any alternative solution.
Jordan Hall and Daniel Schmachtenberger talk a lot about this as one source to go deeper.
(side note, I live full time in a residential, monastic small community in the country side. Our carbon footprint is tiny for our size and we have daily conversations on this type of thing. We haven't "solved" it but this is a issue close to my heart I've dedicated my life to.)
>I'm saying that the exponential rise of technology coupled with the same exact type of mind our ancestors had 2,000 years ago is a significant source of the issue right now. The solution to create even more powerful technology to solve this problem will likely only lead to a bigger problem in the future.
I don't think that's obvious. It could be that we're at a part of the techno-societal landscape that happens to be bad, but if we keep working on technology, we'll get to a new part of the landscape that happens to be better. For example, as VR tech gets better, maybe it will replace social media with something healthier. ("If you're going through hell, keep going" as they say.)
I'd say this is the mantra humanity has used for over 2,000 years and part of the issue.
It's not so much that I'm saying technological development is bad. Obviously we won't stop making new tech. It's that the larger context in which that tech development is happening is toxic, is not oriented towards health or wellbeing for everyone. The incentives are all perverted.
So support and join the people who are pushing for that shift. There are very powerful actors working hard to keep dissenters silent and impotent. Lots of people in this forum regularly disparage social justice efforts.
Social justice includes climate justice and social issues are very much interconnected with issues of environmental sustainability. Consider the appropriation of lands from indigenous peoples and destruction of its natural ecosystems to install monocultures for profit. Consider the fact that poor people must buy cheap disposable stuff again and again because they can't afford to buy long-lasting, more sustainable goods which have become too expensive for profit-seeking industries to produce at scale. Consider that urban sprawl was largely a result of racialised segregation and that the ubiquity of environmentally destructive vehicles and road systems was encouraged in no small part by the desire of certain classes of people to distance themselves from others (or others from them).
I'm not a scientist so if I'm incorrect, I would love to know.
But given the current rate of accelerated use of carbon fueled technologies, how realistic is it that carbon capture technology will catch up within the next decade or less? How certain can we be that such technology won't lead to an even worse problem?
Everything I've seen says carbon capture is a moonshot idea. I'd say Elon Musk has a better shot at populating Mars in 20 years than carbon capture saving us. And even if it is a solid mitigation technique, there still is the issue that we develop this god-level of technological power while have completely underdeveloped and underfunded social/cultural/economic/psychological development of the humans developing and wielding it. Most likely we'll just create a bigger existential threat down the line.
To be clear I'm not saying carbon capture will single-handedly save us. Carbon capture is a bailing bucket. Our boat is sinking. The bucket can buy us time, and help clean up the boat once we've plugged the hole. We've still got to plug the hole. But we'd also be happy to have a good bucket.
I'm a little confused what this article is trying to say besides being on a peak state high doesn't mean much when it comes to really changing things. Don't get self-deluded about yourself by having a peak state experience.
If we are saying "enlightened" as in a general broad category of shift in mentality/emotions/peak state then that's one thing. If we're talking about a technical term that is used specifically within certain traditions then that's a different thing. I think it's very problematic that in a lot of people conflate the two as the same thing.
Even Buddhists who spend the decades realizing enlightenment still continue training to deepen. It's still possible to re-enter delusion after awakening.
And most real meditation masters I know do not make any claims about enlightenment meaning you're now a great ruler or CEO or something. That would be the Halo Effect.
You would also need to account for long term capital gains tax being at most 20% cap which is where much of the wealthy make the bulk of their wealth. And if you have a good accountant then you can easily find ways to even offset this.
