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by spodek 7y ago
Guilt would seem to depend on per capita emissions, not total emissions. I don't see why the size of the nation would permit its citizens to pollute more per capita. If so, many vulnerable nations would probably be guilty, which is pro
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Thank you. I appreciate your suspending judgment enough to research it. If you read it, I hope you'll share your thoughts on it, especially if you do the exercises.
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For those around New York City, this place https://www.nyrture.com makes great natto in Brooklyn. I've met them and they love what they do.
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by spodek 7y ago
Most books on leadership give principles and science, which don't hurt to know, but leading is a practice -- an active, social, emotional, expressive, performance-based field. We learn to perform by practicing the basics in any field.
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by spodek 7y ago
Any business person should see the most important action immediately. If you want to make a company profitable, lowering costs is almost always essential and more effective than raising revenues. Do both, of course, but keep costs down. If
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More added salt, sugar, and fat too, and less fiber than nearly any plant food of theirs, probably.
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As important as privacy is, the longer-term issue is values slowly devolving as each generation sees something as normal. Just as, if we don't resist the pressures, these children will grow up to consider this article's situation
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Or: why do so few people who understand math teach elementary school? Once someone learns math, what incentives do they have to choose teaching elementary school over alternatives? I could imagine that the skills to learn math don't ov
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by spodek 7y ago
There is no Nobel prize in economics. > The five real Nobel Prizes—physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and medicine/physiology—were set up in the will left by the dynamite magnate when he died in 1895. The economics prize is a bi
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> Is there an example of any we have already passed? Reading about nature before humans or where humans settle shows that what passes as nature today is nothing like it used to be. That we are mostly ignorant of it doesn't change
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Do you not think about living by your values as a matter of integrity? I don't not steal to stop others from stealing. I don't steal because I don't want to hurt others. If everyone in the world stole, I still wouldn't.
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by spodek 7y ago
I challenged myself to avoid flying for a year, anticipating a year of missing out, losing money, missing family, and all sorts of deprivation and sacrifice. Within a few months I found it one of my best decisions so kept going. I'm no
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by spodek 7y ago
The best book I've read on population is Countdown by Alan Weiss https://www.amazon.com/Countdown-Last-Best-Future-Earth/dp/0... . If you think we need to grow or that leveling off to 10 billion or even 7 bill
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by spodek 7y ago
To clarify, I'm not rolling my eyes at them. I don't know them or think about them. The article spoke as if I did.
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The writer says "we" this and "we" that, as if everyone is enraptured by . . . I don't know who the Kardashians are beyond their name. I can't name a song by Justin Bieber. I can't be the only one who does
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by spodek 7y ago
If you have a problem with this question you have a problem with John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, which has stood the test of time for a reason, and I propose such people look up Heterodox Academy https://heterodoxacademy.org
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Get up to walk around a lot, often outside.
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> “Why wouldn’t you bike? It’s stupid not to bike.” This article seems aimed at Americans. After all, it's our paper of record. America doubles down on cars over and over again. Building roads and widening them intending to reduce c
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> Besides the teacher (minor fist injuries) and the shooter nobody else was injured and the shooter was arrested. Is there a term for the opposite of damning with faint praise ? Because "minor fist injuries" reads like massive
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Not a word about the most effective, cheapest strategy: reduce emissions? Most Americans could reduce their emissions by 75% while improving their standard of living by buying less junk, wearing a sweater in the winter, eating more health
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Logically equivalent: fewer trees increase premature deaths in cities. I prefer this way. It treats having trees as normal instead of something extra.
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I wonder what future civilizations will try to guess my home Manhattan looked like in my time and what they'll have to reconstruct it from. If you haven't read the poems Ozymandias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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I hope the personal story I shared provided value. If anyone in this community is interested in the books but money is a barrier, contact me and I'll see what I can do to help.
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This community consistently poo-poos MBAs and business people who, it says, don't contribute and just shuffle paper or find ways to lay people off. I felt that way when I started my first company, finishing my physics degree. I figured
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Nurse Ratched incarnate, named the fifth top villain in movies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Ratched . I'm surprised the word "sexism" doesn't appear, or rather not surprised but disappointed.
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> Ms Persson said: "I would like to emphasise that the injured party has submitted a credible and reliable version of events. > "Her statements have been coherent, extensive and detailed; however, my overall assessment is th
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Suggesting ways to pollute less and improve their lives and environment != blame
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> Leave the coal in the ground. More actionable: conserve power. Whether using coal or other: dress to avoid heating and a/c, carpool, fly less, turn things off when not using, buy less stuff, avoid packaged food, etc. You'll
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> During just the single week people had chauffeurs for his study, he saw people already getting comfortable with their AV future. When the study ended, people begged him to keep the chauffeur longer and wondered how they could possibly
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Soon decisions like this won't make headlines because it will be normal not to invest in industries based on increasing suffering. Do we support investing in blood diamonds, no matter how profitable?

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