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15
Jul

Thoughts on cancel culture.

Let's say there's a society where people who say the wrong thing about topic X are
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10
May

Avoiding obviously bad things

Draw one circle inside another. The inner circle is you. The outer circle is the world. One of the main
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20
Apr

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
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20
Apr

Massai wife sharing

I read Barefoot over the Serengeti a while back. In it David Read writes about his childhood in africa. He
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06
Apr

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.
19
Mar

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
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23
Feb

Legal Disfunction: Immigration Edition

I watched a show following police enforcing immigration laws in the UK. They would find someone who was an illegal
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03
Feb

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
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05
Jan

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
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25
Dec

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.