Chad Aaron Hall

If you desperately need a solution and a good one isn’t known or readily available to you, the path of least resistance is willingness to believe anything. Not just try anything, but believe it.

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Cultivate intellectual humility

The world is messy and full of ambiguities. Intellectual humility is about embracing complexity instead of trying to collapse all of our uncertainty into a neat, binary ideology.

When I first met the Brunch Bunch, in June of 2007, one of the women showed me a roster of all of the families who had moved out of town. She said those people could no longer afford to stay, because wealthy urbanites’ holiday homes had driven up property taxes.

Second, he speculates that mortality rates might continue to drop. While that might be good news from an actuarial perspective, it seems both morally horrifying and incredibly risky to base a long-term entitlement program on the assumption that more people will die at a younger age.

Logic and language were the last frontiers of human evolution, and facts will never win over emotion.

And when you look at the wreckage left by urban renewal around many American cities, you should understand these blighted areas as something akin to scar tissue in the urban fabric. Simply building big buildings on the super blocks that we created won’t address the range of conditions necessary for healthy regrowth. Consider splitting up big lots... See more