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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 uphold a responsibility are more likely to do so with care than those who are trying to do something else.
If a father needs someone to watch his 4-year-old daughter, is it wiser to drop her off at a daycare or at a post office logistics warehouse?
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, temple, or other spiritual community. Governments which try to do that job tend to do badly, sometimes with monstrous results. They ought be separate.
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 better opiate of the masses than fentanyl.
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 to buy your code?
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 sources would include:
- Ads for local businesses, classes, and events.
- Annual subscription which is cheaper after the first year and gives you discount codes to events and restaurants.
Once you get the site to work for date nights, let people be open to getting matched based on similar activity interests. Then you can solve the problem of two users finding a specific joint activity.
Would this solve the problem of finding people to have sex with? No, but computers are bad at sex.
Would this solve the problem married couples have of picking a place to eat? Hopefully.
“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 recognize necessity as an excuse for what is otherwise a crime? Yes, though now the law seems less authoritarian.
INTERPOL? Depends on the law.
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How does this relate to the topic a hand?
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 jamboard using Duet to sketch things out.
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.
If you haven’t ever tried doing home construction work, I highly recommend Habitat for Humanity. You can find your local chapter here: https://www.habitat.org/volunteer/near-you/find-your-local-h...
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 growing strong.
Then, find two communities of people local to you.
The first, fellow programmers to continue to practice your craft alongside.
The second, people who do something with their bodies — dancing or rock climbing or basketball.
It may feel like the people at your school whom you would have expected to protect you have betrayed you. They have indeed failed you. It is tempting to hide away to be alone. It is tempting to only reach out to people on the internet who can at best offer superficial companionship. I ask you to resist that temptation.
There are still people who care even though they are human. In this moment what matters is that you find people to be beside you so that you still have a team. Few things are built alone. Many are built by building a team.
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? Or would you rather they tell it like it is and get stuff done?
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 community.
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 connector.
Also, I would expect at least a few cost overruns.
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 you gave was WW2, which was arguably the worst catastrophe in human history. It would be impractical for me to try to build a moral system to handle it.
Put it this way: If your friend asks you for advice on how to set up his wedding website, which of the following is good advice?
A) Use Squarespace.
B) Write an HTML & CSS file and put it on github pages.
C) Use Netlify.
D) Set up a multi-region kubernetes cluster with enough storage and capacity to stream the World Cup.
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 an actual practice
I’m curious what life experiences you’ve had which lead you to conclude that “don’t murder people” is so inapplicable as to be fiction. Are you living near Bakhmut?
This sounds far too similar to an unfortunate pattern I’ve sometimes practiced: taking on the pretense of responsibility instead of an actual responsibility.
Bearing the collective guilt of all mankind is not a noble burden to bear because it is totally detached from taking actions that care for others. It seems more likely to motivate people to self-flagellate, stay in bed depressed by the fact that all of their actions will still result in a hugely negative outcome, or spend lots of time commenting on the internet. The results are as productive and caring as someone playing Call of Duty.
Seems more effective to pick something very specific to strive for like the joy of knowing that some specific group of users from Senegal can provide for their families and to strive towards that.
Customers can feel convenience up front—it is hard for them to feel privacy.
I want to wake up and do whatever the fuck I want
You can. As my dad used to say: you only need to brush the teeth you intend to keep.
solo founder
Why do you want to be a solo founder?
In general, if you take your leadership lessons from a TV shows and movies whose primary purpose is to excite, you will end up with high drama.
Good engineering is like good plumbing. If you are having an exciting day with your plumbing, it is not a good day.
I went to a gym and hired a personal trainer for 3 sessions.
If you are worried about showing a personality trait at work, ask yourself: does this trait makes you seem more or less like a person who gets your job done well even when nobody is watching?
If an auto mechanic seemed really enthusiastic about cars, would you trust him to be knowledgeable and skilled enough to do a competent job repairing your car?
1. Take a step away from social media for a while.
2. Get out a pen and paper. Write out several physical letters expressing your anger at the relevant parties.
3. Put them in a folder to read next week and decide if you want to send.