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The certainty of death is an unyielding truth that should motivate someone of sand to live boldly, determinedly and authentically rather than moving through life vacillating or by …

I've lived in a VW for 9 years in the Bay Area mid-peninsula area without steady income by expending as little as possible. When you stop buying shit, stop with commuting, stop "er…

People online choose not to separate fact from fiction and don't have a sense of humor because social media promotes outrage/cancel culture/instabanning/crybully victimology since …

No, that's bartering because you haven't acquired any capital assets that add any value. Chickens could be considered capital assets to an egg producer. Chicken coops too because t…

Snake oil communities are just like conspiracy theory groups.. tribalism over science.

There ought to be a VC shop named Hubris & Humble Pie LLP

Salt of the Earth, if you ask me. BTW, outside of undergrad legacy and big name donor admits, there's a lot of "normal" people who work and study at Stanford. (I worked there for 5…

I've met some of their alumnus and I found them, over a period of months to years, to be arrogant, entitled, and Machiavellian pricks in their own worlds of "meritocracy," exploita…

Throwing out books makes me want to live in the rafters of the Library of Congress. At least they're usually concerned with archival as the laudable goal that it is.

If America wants to be competitive, it has to throw away the disastrous neocon NCLBA, adapt to what works (including Finnish edu reforms covered in Where To Invade Next? ) and stop…

Whoulda thunk coworking business theatre types were buying into a business theatre? And yet Regus does just fine.

Chumboxes with capture, auto-re-redirect pages and popups are also money-makers.

Universal healthcare is still the "socialized medicine" bogeyman while Americans pay net more than any industrialized country, wait longer, can't afford medications, go bankrupt if…

So much blame thrown around, when they obviously need pumped energy storage and neighborhood-level battery banks if unable to deploy batteries and additional in-home switch gear li…

A robust interface does what the user intended, not just the bare minimum to fulfill a specification. And it introduces the fewest novel quirks, rough edges and gotchas possible. B…

This is how many grandfather intentionally killed himself after my grandmother died.. he got down to 110 lbs. / 50 kg at 6'2" / 1.88 m and died from complications. Risks from extre…

The meat packing industry, especially the largest processors, had/have a habit of advertising wages in Mexican, Central and South American newspapers in order to encourage unoffici…

Exploit Black Friday by flipping stuff and make some money.

I got some cheap-o Feit LED 4000K lights for a dining room table chandelier. It was way too bright, had take out 3 out of 6 to make it tolerable. I also converted my mom's house fr…

Ageism is pervasive and you can't do much about the biases that exist in people. What you can do is do everything to appear less old (weight, exercise, spoken/written language) and…

Well, with that frame, it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's doable if the people revolt and take control of their government out of the hands of the very rich because those are th…

Some emergency carbon capture/ sequestration (CCS) measures might include: - ferrous phytoplankton seeding in open oceans, which requires very little iron - kelp: fertilizing, harv…

- Save as much as you possibly can - Find a nice piece of land (with mineral rights if US) in warm-summer Mediterranean climate in a small, safe town that's run sensibly - Start a …

Bikeshedding is older than the bicycle.