Four things everyone on HN should do for a bit in their life: - Work customer-facing food service - Donate plasma - Volunteer at a soup kitchen - T

Four things everyone on HN should do for a bit in their life: - Work customer-facing food service - Donate plasma - Volunteer at a soup kitchen - Take a long-distance Greyhound There's a lot of the world and people in it that it's easy to be oblivious to, and I think doing each of the above helped make me a kinder, more compassionate person. Or as the article puts it... >> Their kindness that day—their kindness every day—surprised me. I guess I’d expected to be treated like shit. And bored Greyhound bus stories are the best.