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SCARF – Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The more monetized society is, the more anxious and hurried its citizens. In parts of the world that are still somewhat outside the money economy, where subsistence farming still exists and where neighbors help each other, the pace of life is slower, less hurried. In rural Mexico, everything is done mañana. A Ladakhi peasant woman interviewed

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What events very nearly happened that would have fundamentally changed the world I know if they had occurred?

The second token is Small Love Potion, or SLP, which is the currency that fuels Axie’s economy. SLP is earned by playing the game—for example, by winning battles with your Axie—and SLP is spent through the breeding of Axies. SLP is an uncapped utility token, which is a fancy way of saying that supply ebbs and flows. SLP supply typically hovers arou... See more

The effective altruism movement is an attempt to formulate morality from the top-down, which is antithetical to how morals have emerged since the dawn of humanity.

"By far the most difficult skill I learned as CEO was the ability to manage my own psychology... The first rule of the CEO psychological meltdown is don’t talk about the psychological meltdown."