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Is the task easily definable, and how can you determine whether it has been done or not?

Before starting this memo I would like to touch some words on afforestation/reforestation programs (a.k.a planting trees) as a carbon offset mechanism. Planting trees has become the darling of many large companies that aim to become carbon neutral in the next couple of years. However, planting trees (as a carbon offset mechanism) has many issues:

I used to blame advertisers for that restlessness and dissatisfaction, but I don’t think that’s right. We were already restless; we always have been. The advertisers just figured out how to nurture, tend, exacerbate, and capitalize on the pre-existing condition, that innate restlessness, promising that something new is going to set all to rights. W

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That’s as may be. On an individual level, there’s basically zero you can do about the intrinsic human tendency to form multi-layer, complex social constructs to operate within. What you can do, however, is not buy into them personally.

In practical terms, this means that you are not better than someone else because of the job you have, the money you

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Honesty is a communication hack because people so rarely hear it.

Wish mainly targets low-income households who value cheap price above anything else. Peter Szulczewski wrote an article in Dec. 2016 introducing the concept of the "invisible half". It's the lower-income segment of Americans that has been underserved by technology and especially by ecommerce. Many Americans cannot afford to pay an annual Amazon Pri... See more

OpenSea is extremely dominant. The exchange boasts a market share of 97%. That’s thanks, in part, to OpenSea’s superior asset breadth, easy listing process, and robust filtering system.