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Hi there! I am a Dartmouth student taking some time off of school, and I am happy to help you with your gardening needs. I have more than 8 years of experience leading gardening projects -- everything from light weeding to large-scale garden restoration projects. I am a hard worker, and take pride in doing a good job. My experience is in:weedingplantingpruningwateringraking leavesMy current rate is $35/hour. If you’d like more information, or to discuss whether I might be a good fit for your ...
Jack BrustkernLet's talk Adam Smith
This past fall, I sat in on a wonderful course taught by the respected Professor Henry Clark discussing Adam Smith and his ideas. In order to learn the material well I made the goal of giving a lecture (to a singular patient and generous family member) which I recorded, for on the one hand to motivate myself to be thorough and disciplined in my study of Smith, and also to have something to look back on and share with others if they ever happy to have a hankering for some Smith.
Jack BrustkernPersonal reflections and learnings about our neighbors on the street
This past fall, I began working full time in researching questions surrounding homelessness to inform state homelessness policy. A few ideas in particular have sprung up such that I’ve been writing and reflecting on them actively myself, and I thought I’d publish a piece with a few of these learnings and musings together. These learnings have come from a whole lot of time spent reading medical reviews, listening to those who have worked with the homeless for a long time, and listening to the ...
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Jack BrustkernJack's Gardening Services
Hi there! I am a Dartmouth student taking some time off of school, and I am happy to help you with your gardening needs. I have more than 8 years of experience leading gardening projects -- everything from light weeding to large-scale garden restoration projects. I am a hard worker, and take pride in doing a good job. My experience is in:weedingplantingpruningwateringraking leavesMy current rate is $35/hour. If you’d like more information, or to discuss whether I might be a good fit for your ...
Jack BrustkernLet's talk Adam Smith
This past fall, I sat in on a wonderful course taught by the respected Professor Henry Clark discussing Adam Smith and his ideas. In order to learn the material well I made the goal of giving a lecture (to a singular patient and generous family member) which I recorded, for on the one hand to motivate myself to be thorough and disciplined in my study of Smith, and also to have something to look back on and share with others if they ever happy to have a hankering for some Smith.
Jack BrustkernPersonal reflections and learnings about our neighbors on the street
This past fall, I began working full time in researching questions surrounding homelessness to inform state homelessness policy. A few ideas in particular have sprung up such that I’ve been writing and reflecting on them actively myself, and I thought I’d publish a piece with a few of these learnings and musings together. These learnings have come from a whole lot of time spent reading medical reviews, listening to those who have worked with the homeless for a long time, and listening to the ...
Share Dialog
Share Dialog
A theme of the weekend, that started in a lively debate on the way down to Boston, was on engaging with ideas coming from other ideologies.
Words are important. Foucault, Sarte and others who informed today’s thought cared a lot about words. Words aren’t just separable ideas like Descartes treats the mind and the soul. Also connected to this: words inform our ideas to the extent that we struggle to comprehend what we don’t have a word for. This is true for cultures who don’t have words for certain colors, but I’ve also experienced this with friends raise surrounded by very different beliefs who are unable to even comprehend certain ideas like the concept of objective truth. The ways we think are impacted by words. When we use certain words, they are associated with certain other ideas and feelings and perceptions. These tracks are ground in. Also -- the meaning of words are slightly different for people, making these connected ideas and feelings and disposed paths all the more important.
On the importance of using an authentic framework
On the one hand, with the phrase “toxic masculinity” and similar, such comes from an ideology that is based in something that has different fundamentals than, say, Christianity. It comes from a different system of thought. Trying to discuss the veritity of something in its own system can be difficult because in its system, it is probably sound, or at least accepted in deep grooves of thought pattern.
Another side
[inspired from JKAS] On the other hand, to be a human listening to another, there is a big difference between listening to someone deeply in that moment each word. Versus listening to try to translate, try to catch what they’re doing, to translate into your own system. Perhaps this has a role, but it isn’t the initial one.
[inspired from Justin Hawkins’] Augustine was deeeeeply versed in Roman thought. He was the best. Paul was deeply versed in the thought of the enemies of Christ. They engaged on that territory, at least to some extent.
We live in a world that straw-mans the other side. We live in a world of summaries, that praises the one and discounts the other. This is not a good way to live.
A theme of the weekend, that started in a lively debate on the way down to Boston, was on engaging with ideas coming from other ideologies.
Words are important. Foucault, Sarte and others who informed today’s thought cared a lot about words. Words aren’t just separable ideas like Descartes treats the mind and the soul. Also connected to this: words inform our ideas to the extent that we struggle to comprehend what we don’t have a word for. This is true for cultures who don’t have words for certain colors, but I’ve also experienced this with friends raise surrounded by very different beliefs who are unable to even comprehend certain ideas like the concept of objective truth. The ways we think are impacted by words. When we use certain words, they are associated with certain other ideas and feelings and perceptions. These tracks are ground in. Also -- the meaning of words are slightly different for people, making these connected ideas and feelings and disposed paths all the more important.
On the importance of using an authentic framework
On the one hand, with the phrase “toxic masculinity” and similar, such comes from an ideology that is based in something that has different fundamentals than, say, Christianity. It comes from a different system of thought. Trying to discuss the veritity of something in its own system can be difficult because in its system, it is probably sound, or at least accepted in deep grooves of thought pattern.
Another side
[inspired from JKAS] On the other hand, to be a human listening to another, there is a big difference between listening to someone deeply in that moment each word. Versus listening to try to translate, try to catch what they’re doing, to translate into your own system. Perhaps this has a role, but it isn’t the initial one.
[inspired from Justin Hawkins’] Augustine was deeeeeply versed in Roman thought. He was the best. Paul was deeply versed in the thought of the enemies of Christ. They engaged on that territory, at least to some extent.
We live in a world that straw-mans the other side. We live in a world of summaries, that praises the one and discounts the other. This is not a good way to live.
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