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What would you do if you thought the world was going to end? How would you live? That’s the question Adri, Kelsey, and I have been asking ourselves. I’ve been really existentially depressed lately and thought I should finally talk publicly about it. Why have I been depressed? I think humanity is going to be …
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The Bunny “Eight villages in our district have had significant to total structural damage from mudslides. Furthermore, the weather conditions conducive to mudslides have only been increasing in the past decade.” Professor Cristian Avendaño clicked the button and a list of temperatures, wind conditions, and annual rainfall popped up on the screen. He looked every …
This is from my series on Optimizing Communication. “Only hire rock stars!” We’re two weeks into our incubator burning through our meager seed funding and that’s the advice that’s supposed to help? The people who know me know that I’m obsessed with optimizing and improving. I consume a lot of information on this topic and …