From my personal experience, very surprisingly, engineers are NOT well versed in adversarial thinking when it comes to governing. Curiously, “good” engineering solutions require good knowledge of all the problem variables, which makes many engineers incredibly tolerant to “good” tyrants. This is a failure of current “scientism”

Humans flourish in small, spontaneous hierarchies, where competence is revealed and tracked by everyone. Huge “official” hierarchies like the state or big corporations incentivise only the ability to climb them. 100% of the time, those climbers will reach the top, as other compentencies are best used elsewhere.

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I have this feeling that human being that do t have kids yet are still in their larvae state. Being a parent can change your worldview in a drastic way, in a short period of time. I understand people being afraid of being a parent, as they might not stomach what they’ll become. But being a parent in embracing change and that’s incredibly powerful.

Some days Nostr feels like a dev mailing list, and I feel like a lurker.

Who fact checks the fact checkers? I guess we are finding out!

You don’t want to be the person that can explain exactly why something doesn’t work. You don’t even want to be the person that can explain why it can work. If you can really do that, then you are a person that can make it work. Be *that* person (or at least try!).

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Stress is kind of misunderstood. It’s basically a mechanism on your body to pump you up to solve a difficult high stakes problem (high stakes being subjective to each individual). The problem comes is modern societies where 99% of the time you can’t be actively acting on the problem (you are in traffic worrying about your house payment) or the problem expands over time (some older family member has a chronic health condition). Stress asks for action, so a good hack is to actually do something *physically* when you are stressed. Do errands walking, do exercise. It doesn’t need to be related to the cause or the stress, weirdly enough. Talking about is tricky. Talking about it with intention to find solutions is good, but simply talking to a therapist can be just a bad proxy to talking to someone who can actually help you with the problem that is causing the stress. Eventually people default to trying to solve bad mental health which is a consequence not the cause with money (drugs, appointments). Attacking symptoms is always vastly more profitable that attacking the cause of a problem, never forget that, and stress comes from problems.

Humans are wired for localism, not globalism. Nothing pushes you more in that direction than having kids.

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