The average ambitious person spends too much time accumulating optionality and too little time taking actual risks with high upside potential for themselves or the world.
Carbon offsets do not do what they promise, which is offset. But even if they did, you cannot use lifestyle or credits as an offset when you are actively building a system that does harm. Even if you, personally, come out more or less even on the books- to do so is to loan your power to a worldview that has doubled down on worth being tied to... See more