Anu

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Some scholars have argued that over-exploitation of the common resource is by no means inevitable, since the individuals concerned may be able to achieve mutual restraint by consensus. Others have contended that the metaphor is inapposite because its exemplar – unfettered access to common land – did not exist historically, the right to exploit common land being controlled by law. The work of Elinor Ostrom, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics is seen by some economists as having refuted Hardin's claims.[1] Hardin's views on over-population have been criticised as simplistic[2] and racist.…
Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia
That's something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.
Hans Rosling - Wikipedia
But the deepest friendship, he says, is the friendships based upon character, in which you love the person for who he or she is. It’s, in a way, what you said before, in terms of admiration. And you wish that person well for their own sake and enjoy being in their company because it’s uplifting and ennobling and the activities that you engage in with them go deeper into your own soul. The best of those friendships — and this, I think, over a lifetime, I’ve come to endorse — the deepest and richest and most permanent friendship, he says, is the friendship not of doing deeds in common, but the f…
i don't believe in marriage - by Lilian Caylee
You can’t offer happiness until you have it for yourself.
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing” – The Marginalian
Submit to pressure from peers and you move down to their level. Speak up for your own beliefs and you invite them up to your level. If you move with the crowd, you’ll get no further than the crowd. When 40 million people believe in a dumb idea, it’s still a dumb idea. Simply swimming with the tide leaves you nowhere. So if you believe in something that’s good, honest and bright, stand up for it. Maybe your peers will get smart and drift your way.
Vitalizing Advice From Women Who Have Lived By Their Own Rules | Wit & Delight | Designing a Life Well-Lived
Reading a book should be a conversation between you and the author.
The Art of Reading: How to be a Demanding Reader
A lot of people confuse knowing the name of something with understanding. While great for exercising your memory, the regurgitation of facts without solid understanding and context gains you little in the real world.
How to Read a Book: The Ultimate Guide by Mortimer Adler - Farnam Street
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing…I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell…possibly.
Cosmos: working notes, 1
Is power the capacity to have dominion over another, or is it found in one’s ability to resist? To overcome or endure? I long for a world where we follow in the tracks of elephants and remember that strength is as much about gentleness, community, and adaptability as it is about brute force.
The Overview: Strength Alone
Sweet taste perception is an innate capacity that depends on two G-protein-coupled subunit receptors, T1R2 and T1R3, located on the tongue [1], [2]. The stimulation of these receptors by diets rich in sweet tastants, such as, for instance, sugar-sweetened beverages (soft drinks, colas, fruit beverages), generates a sensation that most humans and other mammals, including rodents, find intensely rewarding [3]–[6]. Once reserved to a small elite, the consumption of highly sweetened diets is now highly prevalent in developed countries and is escalating elsewhere [7], [8]. Though difficult to estim…
Intense Sweetness Surpasses Cocaine Reward - PMC
This illustrates the key difference between the two mindsets — for those with a growth one, “personal success is when you work your hardest to become your best,” whereas for those with a fixed one, “success is about establishing their superiority, pure and simple. Being that somebody who is worthier than the nobodies.”
Fixed vs. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our Lives – The Marginalian
The problem with this gospel—Your dream job is out there, so never stop hustling—is that it’s a blueprint for spiritual and physical exhaustion. Long hours don’t make anybody more productive or creative; they make people stressed, tired and bitter. But the overwork myths survive “because they justify the extreme wealth created for a small group of elite techies,” Griffith writes.
The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic
“We’ve created this idea that the meaning of life should be found in work,” says Oren Cass, the author of the book The Once and Future Worker. “We tell young people that their work should be their passion. ‘Don’t give up until you find a job that you love!’ we say. ‘You should be changing the world!’ we tell them. That is the message in commencement addresses, in pop culture, and frankly, in media, including The Atlantic.”
The Religion of Workism Is Making Americans Miserable - The Atlantic
We long to discover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find our unique way of belonging to this world, to recover the never-before-seen treasure we were born to bring to our communities. To carry this treasure to others is half of our spiritual longing. The other half is to experience our oneness with the universe, with all of creation.
Making the Things You Love - by Alex Olshonsky - Deep Fix
A butterfly may stay in its chrysalis anywhere from 10-14 days, a reminder that transformation takes time. Because temperature is a factor in determining when it’s time to enter its final stage, in harsh climates, some species may even wait for years for the right conditions.
Complete Metamorphosis | Atmos
While we tend to focus on the stunning shift from larva to imago, these smaller sheddings that precede it are equally essential to the butterfly’s eventual emergence.
Complete Metamorphosis | Atmos
Likewise, you’re limited to focusing mainly on the next dot on your path—because it’s the only dot you can figure out. You don’t have to worry about dot #4 because you can’t anyway—you’re literally not qualified to do so.
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
Do you treat the words of your external influences as information, held and considered by an authentic inner you, that you’ve carefully decided to embrace? Or are your influences themselves actually in your brain, masquerading as inner you?
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
All lives make a large impact on the world and on the future—but the kind of impact you end up making is largely within your control, depending on the values you live by and the places you direct your energy. Whatever shape your career path ends up taking, the world will be altered by it.
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) — Wait But Why
A beating heart, a breath of lungs, a baby being born—much like the gravitational waves that hum unseen around us, life is awash with contractions and expansions. Like a pattern repeating at every scale, I have learned time and time again that these two forces go hand-in-hand. And while I never know how long they will last, every state of contraction I have found myself in throughout my life, I have found some form of expansion on the other side. The rhythm is finding a way to trust the beat and dance between these states.
Making Waves | Atmos
“All of a sudden, we know that we are humming in tune with the entire universe, that each of us contains the signature of everything that has ever been.”
Making Waves | Atmos