Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise.
It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. Therefore, reconnecting people and the landscape is as essential as reestablishing proper hydrology or cleaning up contaminants. It is medicine for the earth.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you need to feel the salt with your fingers as you add it, so you'll begin to understand how much does what.
Six Seasons
Joshua McFadden
I used it to justify my thinking and redirect myself—and I think that’s an important line to draw, because of all the stories about AI writing legal briefs, or being used to justify weird tariffs. It’s a great generator of stimulus, which you can then interpret and act upon. I didn’t feel like I was giving it any agency over my life; I used it to distract myself—and take more agency over my own life.
Using AI to Redirect Yourself—and Save Money!
Paul Ford
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise