Thoughts on cancel culture.
Let's say there's a society where people who say the wrong thing about topic X are
Avoiding obviously bad things
Draw one circle inside another. The inner circle is you. The outer circle is the world.
One of the main
Founding a tech startups is not a good way to maximize your own wellbeing
Why do people start a business? Two reasons:
* Meaning
* Money
Let's focus only on money for now.
If
Massai wife sharing
I read Barefoot over the Serengeti a while back. In it David Read writes about his childhood in africa. He
Ignoring the crimes of the powerful/revered
I read an article on Kemal Ataturk. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/31/the-ataturk-path-to-islamic-modernity/ . It goes over his achievements.
Violence towards children in history
Childhood for most people was brutal. The notion of children as innocent and sacred and especially valuable is recent. From
Legal Disfunction: Immigration Edition
I watched a show following police enforcing immigration laws in the UK. They would find someone who was an illegal
Against expropriating the founder of wework
The founder of wework is held to be immoral and to have exploited and mismanaged his company, costing thousands of
2019: Year 2 in Review
Posts
Total Posts this year: 39 (+1 vs 2018)
Decent posts this the year:
* Roughly Book Reviews
* Against Bryan Caplan
Minimizing slack is not a good long term strategy
TheViz has a post on slack, the concept not the app. Slack as applied to organizations and teams is interesting.