What impact are you having on the world?
How are you making it a better place?
How are you making it a worse place?
Ask HN: What impact are you having on the world?
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Re: Ask HN: What impact are you having on the world?
#2Less worse:
Consuming fewer unnecessary resources than I have in the past
Worse: Continuing to consume unnecessary resources
Better: ... I'll get back to you
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#3i aim for neither, i dont want to be remembered for any specific action good or bad (this is partly the reason i will never have children)
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#4Some small things:
- Growing my own vegetables. During the summer, half of my meals are home-grown, and I store the ones I can for the fall/winter as well. And I give away a lot for free to friends/relatives.
- I quit eating meat, after realising the impact the meat industry has on everything from animals rights (most important) to pollution, water consumption etc.
- I try to bring more consciousness on this on people, trying not to be a pain but planting some seeds in their mind.
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#5I have no impact and I do not want to have any impact whatsoever... as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions
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#6My first instinct is to say I recycle, I buy my electricity from green providers, I reuse, buy second hand, work from home, eat veggie regularly etc. I do all of these things, but they are grossly outweighed by me simply existing. No matter how green I live, I still consume and produce waste, and so do my children.
How I make the world better: I collect litter at the beach and in parks and dispose of it properly. I also encourage my kids to do this. The positive effect on the environment is probably still outweighed by my consumption, but I can say that there is less trash on the beaches around where I live because of me. It's not much but its something.
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#7Worse: I eat a lot of animals.
Better: I'm creating a better language for humans.
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#8About 5,000 smokers quit smoking and 10,000 heavy sleepers have gotten control of their sleeping habits through our wearable device, Pavlok: http://pavlok.com
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#9I barely made it through college, and worked in factories and warehouses during/after school. Because of my bad grades, I thought manual labor jobs were the only ones I could do.
I later worked overseas (in Guyana). I've seen many bright young people worldwide forced into doing work that crushes their spirits, because they either never had access to educational opportunities, or they struggled with rigid educational systems.
Education is one of the few ways to reduce systemic economic inequality, but it's getting harder to get a cheap, high quality education over time.
I'm building Dataquest, which to start is teaching data science online at low cost. Dataquest teaches skills in depth, so students really understand the concepts and can apply them with projects (vs most syntax focused online learning). We've had students get jobs at companies like SpaceX and Amazon.
I hope the positive impact I'm having is in some small way helping people achieve things they never believed they could.
Re: Ask HN: What impact are you having on the world?
#10About 5,000 smokers quit smoking and 10,000 heavy sleepers have gotten control of their sleeping habits through our wearable device, Pavlok: http://pavlok.com
Hmm, any peer reviewed papers or something that demonstrates conclusions ? Seems very interesting.