Insightful illustrations by Sarah Cooper ☞ on Medium…
From my experience only some of those are true, while I identify myself particularly in this one I’ve taken here as an example.
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Category: Life
posts about personal “happenings”
the giving portfolio
create a giving portfolio. Here in Australia, there is a platform called MyCause. You can choose from 2000 charities and make regular donations to the causes you believe in through one simple interface. You’re able to adjust the mix and the amount of your portfolio any time depending on what issues need your support most urgently. I’m sure there is a similar tool in your country. In the US, I know of one called Givolio which works similarly.
It’s one small step that everyone with a bit of disposable income can take. For me, my giving portfolio is a little hack that helps me offset some of the helplessness and anger I get from social media.
Advice about Death and Love
With all of the demands of life, we can’t give (much) more time to the people we love without taking it away from other love-worthy people/things… But we can easily change is how we treat people with the time that we have. We can say “I love you” more, and more earnestly. We can tell people when we’re proud of them. That we admire them. That they are important to us. We can say the things we’re leaving unsaid because they are hard or because they make us feel weak. We can put our phones away and listen better. And when the warmth leaks out of our relationships, we can pro-actively try to get it back.
Tony Wright, Today is My Wife’s First Birthday Since She Died.
RIP Alex … and thanks Tony. Take care…
Fine Lines
via Dilbert‘s comics strip. Always one of the best.
The world, opinions, experiences.
“The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it”.
happy Sunday
No suggested reads list today …
Yesterday’s “School of Life” link is so full of good and interesting material that, if you have time today, it’s worth exploring further!
Feeling Grateful for the Small Things
For self improvement, insights and more be sure to check out the School of Life‘s YouTube channel … many videos have subtitles, even in your language.
On ignorance
I get ignorance and incompetence. It took me years, but now to an extent I do. We are all ignorant except for a tiny slice of human knowledge that is so tiny it can’t really be quantified. Even the smallest of the scientific fields hides a huge amount of details, experience, data, insights. Science itself is just part of human knowledge. And then there’s what we don’t know.
Even in my primary job, in which – the moments when I’m not deeply and ruthlessly undermining myself – I can concede myself I know enough to play in the A league, I don’t know all I need to know.
I despise shaming ignorance. Shaming ignorance is a backhanded way to shame learning. The ignorance that leads to a question is ignorance that should be welcomed. It’s a form of awareness. Ignorance is also a way we connect to others: we ask…
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suggested reads for July 29, 2018
- What It’s Like to Quit Social Media as a Teenager in 2018
- Here’s How To Plug One Of The Biggest Privacy Holes In The Internet
- Bruce Schneier on Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
- It’s time to rebuild the web – The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.
- Sorry for the Delayed Response
