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Justin Harnish

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Justin Harnish is a writer, engineer, and non-profit founder. He is the author of the books “Meaning in the Multiverse: A Skeptic's Guide to a Loving Cosmos” & “Dance to Spawn A Galaxy: Poems of Purpose.”  

Justin is a free-range thinker, a futurist, mindfulness practitioner, and a speculative Natural Philosopher. 

He studied engineering and philosophy at Montana State University. For the last 21 years has tried to live an examined life: as a semiconductor engineer and technology strategist; as a practitioner of mindfulness; and in service to his community. 

Utilizing the life optimizing strategies outlined in Meaning in the Multiverse, Justin helps people detail their passions and align their life and professions to achieve their greater purp
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The Age of Exponential Growth in Knowledge

Finding yourself and your success in the all encompassing present

If you were born anywhere in any station except exultant royalty in any year in the first millennia A.D., your life and knowledge of the workings of the most basic of physical systems would be the same as someone born hundreds of years BOTH before and after you.

However, in just two generations’ time from my grandfather to me, we have

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Homeland Earth  by Edgar Morin
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Not at all what I'd hoped which was a robust complexity theory philosophy to combat philosophic anarchism. Really starts out with a good definition of the existential problems we have but doesn't answer them with a compelling complexity theory answer ...more
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Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
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One of those books that you pick through slowly and find a few amazing nuggets for your practice. Very sturdy mindfulness lessons throughout like:
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A really terrific read on the rise of data feudalism and its role in determining winners and losers in the economy and in society. McCourt argues that human data is being taken from us by corporations that are using it to enrich themselves and for th ...more
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Cherished Belonging by Gregory Boyle
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Father Boyle is one of the few authors who has something compelling to say on how we can heal our political divide and learn again that we belong to one another and are unshakably good. Few have led by example on "how" to form communities of cherishe ...more
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The Quark and the Jaguar by Murray Gell-Mann
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Gell-Mann is one of the geniuses of our time and has been influential in shaping modern day complexity science and the Santa Fe Institute that is this fields chief research institute. His book "The Quark and the Jaguar" clearly outlines how these dif ...more
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I am a fan of the "Philosophy of the {TV Show/Movie}" collections of philosophy articles, but the "Abide Guide" falls a bit flat. It stretches what there is to say about the Big Lewbowski beyond the limits of this collection of authors. It is often l ...more
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Lucid Dying by Sam Parnia
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Parnia's offering on "Lucid Dying" is timely and one of the first serious pieces I've seen on the idea that we might be able to hone our conscious awareness when coming upon what I call the "Great Distinction." Parnia also starts in a compelling way, ...more
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“Look- here's a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. [...] On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. [...] The most interesting thing here isn't even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. Not a six, not a four, not nineteen-point-five. It's an eight. This is what we're looking at, and we all see it. I didn't tell you. You didn't ask me. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We're not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together. We are close. We're having a meeting of the minds. [...] We've engaged in an act of telepathy. No mythy-mountain shit; real telepathy.”
Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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