A number of tech players have emerged to assist businesses in taking what we call “carbon action”. We clustered these actions into 1) creating awareness and transparency and 2) taking action.
I’m increasingly of the belief that incentive design is the most important problem to work on. Humans are good at overcoming obstacles when they have reason to do so — the worst problems tend to be ones of cooperation, not technological or scientific understanding.
Mr. Wolf Insurance sells you insurance to protect you from damages when your online presence being damaged, the same way Geico insures your car or home. Instead of sending a human being to your home, Mr Wolf uses video calls+deep learning to authenticate you and make this really scaleable.
One common criticism of systems such as Anki is that external memory devices – systems such as Google, wikis, and notebooks – really ought to be enough. Used well, such systems are, of course, extremely useful as a complement to Anki. But for creative work and for problem-solving there is something special about having an internalized... See more
When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives—about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.