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Any organization made of humans is indeed fallible and corruptible. I have heard some dark stories of this. They are not mine to tell. Still, the people who say they are trying to …

My purpose is to care for the people I can as I learn to love and be loved. It is not the job of the nation-state to give people a deep sense of purpose. That is a job for a church…

I have come to the conclusion that lots of humans have a religion-shaped hole in their psyche. It is far better to fill it with a stable, local, hope-giving religion. Hymns are a b…

Thank you so much! I have been wanting something like this for a long long time! Can you add a monthly GoCardless subscription so I can help this service continue to exist?

Perhaps then it is better run as a feature of a city’s local newspaper. They already have the advertising department side of the marketplace. Does anyone at the Boston Globe want t…

So is alcohol.

A dating site could work sustainably if it was a site for planning date nights. Make profiles based on activities and swipe right or left on the activities you want to do. Revenue …

“Allowed” by whom? The police employed by authoritarian countries? Yes, though I don’t think corrupt officials should take bribes. The judges employed by those countries who recogn…

Cell phone camera on a little holder pointed at a piece of paper. Then I join as a second participant, mute it, and turn the volume off. Or ipad and apple pencil on google docs jam…

What reaction would you expect to see?

Helping my dad with a cabin renovation. Building things with my fingers and a keyboard is great, but I moved back to the US so that I could build things with my shoulders and arms.…

Also, a year at university when you have good health habits will result in much more learning than a year when you have poor habits.

Firstly, read about the recovery of YC founder Hiroki Takeuchi after his injuries. He built a team and led a company that was a highlight of my professional life and which is still…

There is a difference between: A) “All meetings are a waste of time.” B) “There are productivity tradeoffs between a managers schedule and makers schedule.”

At the end of the day, what matters is getting your job done. If you hire someone, would you rather they be unproductive and avoid talking about this for fear of appearing entitled…

If a work meeting ruins your day by prompting rumination, I think that indicates a separate problem with how your workplace communicates.

Libraries are a solution to this problem. Print the wisdom on thinly-sliced trees and place it in a location which requires someone to get out of the house and engage with their co…

To go fast, stay humble and use boring technology.

If you want to change the world positively, the first step is accepting the current state of the world is what it is.

According to labor union association AFL-CIO, the highest CEO compensation in 2021 was $835 million[1], less than a tenth the cost of the $10 billion estimate for the North-South c…

Or I can try to have rules and values that work for the situations I reasonably expect myself to manage responsibly and I accept that they will fail in extreme cases. The example y…

> Rules like “don’t murder people” don’t ever work. I’ve found it to be a pretty workable rule in living my actual life so far. > such rules more exist as a pretty fiction than as …