Drafts for values and Checking in on 2025

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+title: Values
+---
+
+I am doing an experiment with trying to clearly define my values so that I can
+know when I am living up to them.
+
+The psychologist [Carl Rogers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Rogers)
+described the idea of congruence/incongruence. It's roughly the difference
+between your lived self and your ideal self. It's the difference between "I
+am" and "I should". Incongruence, a large gap between the two, leads to a
+tension between what you are doing and what you think you should be doing. I
+believe that everyone will be happier and experience more of their potential if
+they are living and growing in line with their ideals.
+
+## My Values
+
+### Equity
+
+- Everyone should have the means to live a healthy and meaningful life.
+- This applies to people now and in the future.
+- Everyone should have a fair voice in decisions that affect them.
+
+### Integrity
+
+- Take responsibility for your own actions.
+- Hold others accountable and responsible for their actions.
+- Give honest feedback.
+- Take the time to do good work.
+- Be proud of your work.
+- Be your authentic self.
+
+### Sustainability and long-term thinking
+
+- Think not about the short- or long-term, but about the equilibrium, the forever-term.
+- Do not sacrifice the future for the present.
+- Do not sacrifice the present for the future.
+
+### Cooperation over competition
+
+- We build better when we work together.
+- We can challenge each other without having to compete.
+- Resources should not be scarce.
+- Share information, materials and goods.
+- Hold others responsible for sharing alike.
+
+### Self-improvement
+
+- Be curious and motivated to learn and understand.
+- Be open to feedback and learning.
+- Learn new things.
+- Seek to understand.
+- Embrace failure as an opportunity to learn.
+- Take the time to review and retrospect.
+- Help others learn and grow by giving them resources, training and feedback.
+
+### Self-reliance
+
+- Enable everyone to work with minimal interruption by reducing the dependence on each other.
+- We should work together but not be dependent on one another.
+- Many strong units weakly coupled are more resilient than rigid or hierarchical structures.
+- Invest in your health and stability.
+
+## Corollaries
+
+### Environmentalism
+
+- We must preserve our planet so that future people will have at least the same opportunities we currently do.
+
+### Anti-capitalism
+
+- Modern capitalism is a system that is built on and perpetuates inequity.
+- Modern capitalism creates and exploits dependency.