Outlining an Framework — G-C-T-P

I’m thinking about how I’m organising the stuff I’m reading, and the podcasts I’m listening, and I’m developing a framework/meta-framework on how to think about the non-fiction material I’m reading. Broadly they can be categorised as G-C-T-P:

G — refers to geological or the genomic inheritance that we have. I wanted to add cosmic, but that might be a stretch too far.

C — Cognitive: for the way our mind and the brain — the brain affects our mind, and vice versa. And beyond that, the social and spatial ways of perceiving, and how our mind/brain is easily affected by our circumstances. So maybe the whole complex of themes should be “C-S-S” — cognitive: social and spatial.

T — Technical: How we have constructed our material world, and the incentives and organisations that have brought them about. I’m thinking this as not just “T”, but more as “T-E-O” — technical, economic and organisational.

P — Political: To think about how we influence each other, and how societies organise each other, and how those influences both within and between societies are shaped by history.

To follow: a broader elaboration, and maybe more in-depth investigations into each area. So far, I have written about P the most — the US-China interactions, for example. I think this 4 buckets help me to structure the rest of the blog.

More to follow in the coming weeks.