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While I agree with some of this, there's a hubris in it that I find a bit distasteful. It seems to claim that there's only one type of person needed for society to thrive. Not surp…

My experience does not include microloans, but I can clearly see the gap that they could fill in some of the situations I work through. In many circumstances I encounter, financial…

I personally think that this article is really just skimming the surface in the area some people broadly refer to as development work. Helping people toward sustainable, more indep…

I moved some of my high yield savings account into a 12 month CD recently to maintain a more tolerable interest rate for the next 12 months while the savings account interest rate …

If you want to go down the rabbit hole on cool old school woodworking techniques, check this out: http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/home/

This might be a really interesting read for you in your quest: By Hand and Eye by George Walker and Jim Tolpin https://lostartpress.com/products/by-hand-eye-1 It's by a couple wood…

Social media gives a lot of people the platform to do this and some use it quite heavily. It would be interesting to see the correlation between something like "ferocity" on Facebo…

Here's the full series run by Facebook (2014): https://www.facebook.com/data/posts/10152217010993415

The four dead ideas according to the article: 1) Business is more competitive that ever. 2) We live in an age of entrepreneurialism. 3) Business is getting faster. 4) Globalization…

There's something subtle behind this that I think is more powerful than the details of the housing. It's someone taking time to interact and treat them like a person. I believe tha…

I used to obsess over muscle mass back in college and that being "all natural." Creatine and citrulline malate? I black listed them in my quest, and my personal experience is that …

The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.

A fair point. I assumed with the article that the communication is working to some extent. I have no way of knowing whether that is indeed the case.

If you have various groups working a problem and they don't communicate, they are significantly disadvantaged relative to groups that talk. Each of these groups have their particul…

Summary: Apple is proposing a per stream rate rather than the current rate structure, a percentage of revenue. This would unquestionably benefit subscription services [Apple] becau…

A fine point in an ideal world. The problem is that as traffic increases, the number of people that drive in a way that doesn't respect the safety of the neighborhood increases. Th…

Good question. If they actually figured out a strategy to do this, it seems to me that it would be a maddening job. Oh look! A free lunch!

My take: If institution of a basic income is not accompanied by development efforts within a population to create meaningful opportunities to work, it's not really doing what the p…