growingkittens

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HN is still in the "everything non-male is political" stage of its development.
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What the original commenter wants is called "occupational therapy." CBT, in application: - is focused on quick results - does not evaluate the patient as a system - does not enable practitioners to recognize the limits of their pr
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Soft sciences are easy to look down on because science lacks the systemic tools required to understand systems as a whole. The scientific method is a systematic, step by step process that examines components of reality: reality which is mad
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We are generalists, as opposed to specialists. Generalists use information from experts across multiple domains. Specialists are the experts who build a particular domain. As a culture, we look down on generalists - "A jack of all trad
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"From Systems Thinking to Systemic Action: 48 Key Questions to Guide the Journey" by Lee Jenkins.
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Zotero has a few plugins that turn your library into a website. There are also visualization tools. Obsidian has similar plugins or functionality (ignore the native graph though).
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I have a childhood brain injury that affects my working memory and sequencing ability, among other things. I think in pictures with a verbal commentary, although words disappear soon after I think them. My brain stores information everywher
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A distinction you might find interesting: Systemic thinking - considering the system as a whole. Systematic thinking - considering the components of a system step-by-step.
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Abortion clinics allow people to choose when to be parents...plan it out, so to speak. Anti-choice entities actively lie in order to take this choice away.
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That's not the reality, though. Anti-choice entities pretend to be legitimate clinics to draw people in.