I wonder if it's the same mechanics as Zen Buddhism but from the western angle.

When do we do our best thinking? When we're not.

Right, and the ones who are best able to figure out regulations are, of course, the businesses themselves!!

Look how well that's worked out for the financial sector. Nothing but good faith actors there. Immaculate.

I’m not saying fossil fuels companies should be in charge of regulating fossil fuels companies.

I’m saying that fossil fuels companies are incentivized to sell useful co2 converters because this enables them to sell more fossil fuels.

Using that gold standard of bias tests, politicalcompass.org

The article mentions Rippling as still having that 'spark', but they've been pretty awful the past few months. Between layoffs and data loss, it's looked pretty dire when I've talked to them.

X-isms

I was interested in the authors views until it became clear this was an excuse to publish his 1950s attitude towards gay and non-western people.

If this article was written in the 1950s, the author would be blaming people of color and "that damnable civil rights act". I don't think this author is coming from a place of good faith when he starts off the article saying he was among the privileged few who was given a rare chance to possibly be a billionaire, if he just played his cards right. And then frames it as a real shame that his good (if not perfect!!!) ideas were ignored.

What does he said that makes you think he’s against civil rights?

Be careful with this method, lest you learn enough of the truth to be a threat to your manager or the company.

I want to like this article but I think it really underplays the nature and (modern) frequency of black swan events. If I were to take the advice of this article in 1994, I would be going full bore into telephony and set-top internet boxes that attach to 4:3 SD televisions.

This sort of thinking works. . . until it doesn't. It's how we get the vintage zeerust type of Sci-Fi works.

- Ebooks will, of course, be delivered to your TRS-80 after you dial a phone number to buy it from a print catalog.

- Daily news will never go out of fashion (there's always -something- happening!) but printing newspapers creates a bunch of waste. People will, instead, buy a single newspaper that they keep and exchange at a 'newsstand' where your old paper is erased and a new edition printed on top, for a small fee.

> telephone

It should be mostly about "communication"

> televisions, news

Same, "entertainment", and "know about latest events"

The trick is to identify what will change and what won't.

"And another thing, employees keep using up a full allotment of oxygen every day. Consider half portions or cutting breathing gasses out of the budget entirely."

"I lost a lot of money I put on Google stocks, someone else must pay for the consequences of my actions!"

"Due to supply chain issues, oxygen prices are at a decades-long peak. Consider mixing up to 30% CO2; also tout your commitment to combating climate change."

The future according to Musk.

And Trump, am I right? Glad we can keep these two accountable regardless of context

Note that this sentence does not apear in the pdf. Using quotes to post it here is confusing.