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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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Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
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Jaw dropping read, so well-detailed and yet there are still many more veins for the science of fungi to explore and engineer for global betterment. I hope people read this and take up mycology as a hobby, seems like just what the world needs.
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Probable Impossibilities by Alan Lightman
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I love "Einstein's Dreams" but feel that Lightman has written the same book a number of times. He is a great writer, but his essays implore the same things from us, an appreciation of materialism and that consciousness is an important current mystery ...more
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A World Appears by Michael Pollan
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Maybe the best book on consciousness. It takes nothing for granted but Pollan is honest about his twists and turns to understand how theoretical and objective studies "feel" subjectively, asking more than once, "is x (integrated information, workspac ...more
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1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
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A very interesting review of the financial crash that helped bring on the great depression. Sorkin does a great job of following the folks from Wall Street and Washington that made it all happen. A nonfiction "thriller" in the best of the tradition. ...more
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A very interesting review of the financial crash that helped bring on the great depression. Sorkin does a great job of following the folks from Wall Street and Washington that made it all happen. A nonfiction "thriller" in the best of the tradition. ...more
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The Whole Language by Gregory Boyle
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Father Boyle, "G", is one of the most compelling voices in any genre! He is funny, kind, and contemplative. In our current time, "The Whole Language" is comfort food for the soul! ...more
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Father Boyle, "G", is one of the most compelling voices in any genre! He is funny, kind, and contemplative. In our current time, "The Whole Language" is comfort food for the soul! ...more
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Not a very good audiobook, many of the examples require the page to keep track of your type I vs. type II thoughts. The concepts are influential but the medium needs to be a paper or e-book to keep track.
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
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An extremely frightening take on our current phase of development with AI, made even more telling with the various short story interludes that thru storytelling deliver the point of the chapter. For example, the example of the aliens-eye-view of huma ...more
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Terrific history of medicine's use and abuse of a poor black women's cancerous tissue and its profound support for modern day biology and medicine. Told both with the family of Henrietta Lacks and with a strong understanding of the medicinal benefits ...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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