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“Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. "You lived with her, she brought up your children and grew old," said Huiz
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Low Tech Magazine wrote a piece on how to make turbines more sustainable and addresses blade material. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...
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> wind and solar energy can provide the electricity to power homes and electric cars, green hydrogen could be an ideal power source for energy-intensive industries like concrete and steel manufacturing It's not a power source. It&
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First, the problem determines the solution. A team without leaders isn't better or worse. It's different. When one mode works better, use it. When the other, use the other. When something else, something else. Second, the article
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Nothing beats reducing consumption.
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I consider feedback a gift, so appreciate it. As the podcast has grown into a non-profit, which we plan to spin off to its own site, I plan to simplify my personal site. I expect to resolve such issues in the simplification.
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This article is like a biological description of how muscles grow. People interested in getting stronger will benefit more from an exercise plan. They still have to exercise, but at least they'll know what to do. If your interest is de
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> Never Use Google to Sign-In Never Use Google.
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> Humans live in symbiosis with the sea. The relationship sounds more parasitical than symbiotic. I see how we benefit at its expense. What do we do that benefits it, and do those benefits outweigh how much we trash it? I'm no exp
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I predicted based on what people are throwing away that cars will become disposable and landfills will fill up with them https://joshuaspodek.com/prediction-cars-will-become-disposa... . We keep not thinking of the unintende
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If you don't live near a farmers market, consider helping organize to start one. Do not accept the situation handed to you. You will find others who want fresher produce, to help their neighbors, and all the benefits of community. The
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Glad to see the project but not sure how I would use it. I'm friends with the founder of Litterati, but even that app is too much trouble for me to use. I don't bring a phone when I plog. Still, I value tracking since it's fu
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No meaningful anecdotes since we mostly just talk. Typical topics: - They ask why I do it - They tell me how the others are at the ends of their ropes but that I couldn't understand that situation without being there - They call me goo
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I recently passed day 1,300 of picking up at least one piece of trash per day. It's not my only civic contribution, but it's deeply rewarding. I've also switched from jogging to plogging. Some results: It's gotten me on
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> Micromanagement, when used in the context of a business, is a situation in which managers (or anyone responsible for leading other people) are overly controlling of work or processes. The key word in that definition is "overly&q
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Or they suck, depending on whom you mean by "they".
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You're in for a world of discovery. Here is just a start: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=escher&atb=v173-1&iax=images&ia=im...
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It's remarkable how the personality and ethics of founders (or early investor in Musk/Tesla) appear in how a company behaves, as in Zuckerberg/Facebook and Newmark/Craig's List for other examples.
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This community is so quick to embrace new technologies and so dismissive of unintended side effects. We cringe at DDT dumps but loved it at the time. Do we not expect similar unintended side effects from other things this community endorses
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> plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else This view implies not walking is normal and walking is something you can go out of your way to do to improve on normal. I prefer viewing walking as
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You're saying what we've been saying about the environment for generations. Plastic replacing elephant tusk for billiard balls and cars replacing horses filling streets with dung made such small impacts and provided such benefit.
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While the article has you thinking of stopping listening to the voices keeping you comfortably complacently lacking meaning and purpose, consider that the pattern and lessons apply beyond one's personal life to acting on the biggest pr
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Didn't mention what I consider the biggest blow to the arts: our educational system's teach-to-the-test ethos quashing children's innate tendency to create. Adults' tendencies are quashed too, probably more by lack of le
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We can dance around it all we want, but we will always arrive at human overpopulation contributing to all our environmental problems. We can fool ourselves that lowering birth rates mean lowering population. We can fool ourselves that stabi
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I did a couple video essays on the book that quote that passage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLAvBiols2Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4NZdciDozI . The passage about the fish comes 45 seconds in t
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If interested in the Earth before humans exploded onto the scene, I recommend The Once and Future Earth by JB MacKinnon. http://www.jbmackinnon.com/books.html I had no idea what we'd lost -- about 90%. North America
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By exporting a lot of industry, we pollute more, just other people's water.
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> What are some other professional duos? Car Talk.
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I went twice. I posted a bunch of videos http://joshuaspodek.com/summary-of-north-korea-videos . That post also links to the top ten of many posts I wrote on the experience. I studied strategy so wrote a book describing my v
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One could equally ask what is history, art, sports, etc. The answers mathematicians give seem partly interesting, but also, to me, imply insecurity -- that they have to justify to others that everyone should learn it. Not many other subject

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