As I’ve shared before I’m driven by a personal mission in life: to grow powerful people: to learn and teach so that others can better survive and thrive through understanding knowledge! I’ve been very struck recently with the concepts of effective altruism, of doing good even better with careful consideration and measurement of impact. For …
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Doing Good, Better.
I’ve finally read Doing Good Better. And I couldn’t recommend it more highly. I wish I had read this years ago (like many books.) I’m sharing my review both here and where I wrote it on GoodReads. I also gave an intro to it and shared it on YouTube or sharing-ready on LinkedIn Who should …
What this Marine learns from Malala’s Children’s book: Malala’s Magic Pencil.
One voice can change the world. There are few books that choke me up and move me to tears. That cause a deep and aching sadness in me. There are even fewer children books that have this effect. Malala’s Magic Pencil is one of these. My oldest daughter has been getting more and more skilled …
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Why are all the artists men, daddy? (Happy International womens day 2022)
“Why are all the artists and composers men, daddy?” “Can I really ask for a starting salary that high?” “Would a man take credit for this work?” Women are wonderful and powerful – first as humans they deserve respect, equality and inclusion. And they do NOT yet get it. It is up to us, all …
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Ukraine fights for us all
It feels very strange to be observing the war that Russia has imposed on Ukraine by its invasion. I am very sorry for the people in Ukraine and I wish them great luck, strength, courage, and success in defending their homes and their people. I don’t have anything earth shattering or new to add to …
Veterans Day: Don’t thank us, join us
On this Veterans’ Day, like on previous, I call on you, my fellow citizen, not to thank us Veterans. I call on you to join us. Serve your nation and your fellow citizens, help protect and safeguard them. We are at war with a deadly Pandemic. It is killing more Americans per day than any …
When should we go to war?
(This post originally appeared on a couple other blogs where it seems to have been orphaned, posting it here to keep it alive and back dating to post date on those.) When we have to. How will we know we have to? It will be obvious to a majority of our people that we have …
My UBI Story: Or How I Benefit From An Unconditional(ish) 1k (ish) Per Month
This was also posted here. I support Andrew Yang for President in 2020. The Flagship of his policies is the Freedom Dividend in which every American Citizen over the age of 18 will receive $1,000.00 each month unconditionally. This seems surprising to a lot of people I talk with, although the concept has longstanding American …
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