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I'm not even sure what deep metaphor I think I'm looking at, here. Maybe I'm just filling my chapel with horny moths

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Joined July 2015

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    I'm experimenting with offering some very open-ended consulting, so if there's anything in particular you're dying to chat with me about — now's the time! Free optional 10-minute intro. I'll also keep intermittently doing unpaid calls on specific issues.

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  2. Feb 1

    Here's the correspondence between CO2 emissions (gigatons) to atmospheric concentrations (parts per million). It's very helpful to think between both scales! From :

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  3. You'll look either Very Courageous (if not considered "powerful") or Very Discerning (if "powerful") if you simply make a habit of expecting people to give you a good reason to care about what they think which is just good, basic epistemic hygiene

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  5. Feb 1

    (Risky here being shorthand for "high variance in expected returns of the underlying.") If you gave a choice "Would you rather have 100 CEOs in your network or 100 college students?" assuming low levels of investment in each relationship I think almost everyone picks wrong.

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  6. Most people never, ever forget the first person to give them a sizable advance on their own self-confidence — there's no greater security in life than being a serial enabler of wonderful young people

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  7. Feb 1

    Most Likely to Succeed is fantastic I think I have to thank for recommending it Basically they get 12/13 year olds to do ridiculously good projects that we never expect them to be able to do, or let them try

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  8. Creating a serendipitous connection, freely offering a good idea, telling someone you see their potential & you'll be in their corner... these are both cheap & costly, the currency of trust in the human project Invest this way and you'll have the world's most joyous nest egg

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  9. Journalists used to provide distribution, so they were pandered to. Now they simply provide distortion, so they're ignored. To the formerly pandered, indifference feels like defensiveness, when it's merely the ingratiating mask falling off.

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  11. tired: anxious antivax moms don't care about immunocompromised kids wired: most of those deaths were people with shitty immune systems, just saying

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  12. >200 dead despite intensive care; at least an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu, highly mobile w/ no vaccine, just declared a global health emergency by the WHO, and WIRED's contribution is ...*drumroll*... border health checks are authoritarian

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  15. Official "for fucksake, San Francisco" thread

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  16. I actually think there's room for a special sort of domain expert to replace the grantwriting process for corporate/eccentric nonprofits, filtering like a VC rather than e.g. a University

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  18. New data from Gallup; though satisfaction's dropped in some areas since the start of the Trump admin, it's improved in more — in some cases, dramatically There's every indication that Trump will be seriously tough to beat, but my guess is that the media's gonna pull another 2016

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  19. If it's not clear why this is, consider this: Is it easier to solve a very hard problem, or... ...to accidentally/subtly introduce or neglect obstacles that you can later use as evidence that it wasn't your fault that the problem didn't get solved?

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  20. They also fuck up *much, much* more when they're incentivized to *look like* they're trying to do something rather than incentivized to actually do the thing, and it's not always clear to anyone involved which of the two is happening or that there is a distinction at all

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  21. Broadly speaking, humans are prone to get into serious trouble when they attempt massive-scale things straight out of the gate, but they also don't try to do nearly *enough* things

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