I don't have any data, but it wouldn't at all surprise me if single/business travelers are way more likely to cancel or change flights, and this is just pricing that into the ticket cost.
I think think is doable, but how would you find a partner that is willing to do it? how many men or women are interested in this that are also the kind of people that read substack regularly?
I think if you understand the fundamentals of how computers work and can debug anything to figure out what is causing a problem you will be valuable for a long time. most people either don't have the requisite knowledge to do this, or just simply lack the drive and curiosity to figure out weird bugs. also, there are senior engineers with 10+ years exp. at the company that I work at that don't bother to google or do any real debugging before asking a question in slack. don't be one of those people.
The rationality community I'd say is very curious, on the whole - see astral codex ten, marginal revolution, lesswrong, etc
Regardless of what you think of them it's hard to argue they aren't curious
One thing I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is that Brady is known to be a complete health nut. His diet, exercise and lifestyle regimens are freakish.
Performance reviews - a director where I work said he started using gpt3 to write them. Basically most companies only do them because of legal requirements
I was in therapy for a while and I don't buy that therapists are good at actually solving people's problems. I saw a couple therapists and a both would often parrot whatever zeitgeisty feel good advice was common on Instagram - stuff like "self care" and the like - these sorts of things just encourage you to sink deeper into whatever problems you have and not address the root cause. I don't have any hard data on this but I imagine the majority of therapists are like this - average and not able to get people to solve their own problems.
Yeah anyone who thinks that Vancouver bike infrastructure is bad is delusional - it's not perfect but no city is (especially in north America) and you can get basically anywhere in the city on a safe side street
But because I can't resist, basically all of the most elite Americans have gone through Harvard or Yale at some point, but really it's the cultures at all the most elite schools. No one school can be said to be the offender - they are all equally permicious and pushing the same things.
"Apple has also promised that by 2023, its supply chain and product usage will become entirely carbon neutral."
What does this mean exactly? It seems absurd to think that everything that apple does is in any way carbon neutral or neutral whatsoever with respect to the environment. As far as I can tell, Apple has much higher standards than most, but this seems dishonest.
Obviously I don't agree with the guy but I do think Russia invading Ukraine has woken up the west a bit in terms of human nature. Those in the chattering classes in the us tend to think (in my experience at least) that we can mold humans, and this is an example of where taking things too far has backfired (no pun intended). I do wonder how this will shape current children's worldviews
If you look at cars from their inception until about the 80s, most cars, even lower end models were aesthetically very pleasing. That's not true of most cars today. The ones you've cited are all luxury sedans and are rare to see on the road (at least where I live). Also, the cheapest is $40k. That's not practical for most people, and that's not even including operating expenses.
I totally agree with the point about all new cars looking completely ridiculous. I have never understood why there isn't a low cost automaker that has only the bare minimum - the style barely ever changes and looks decent, manual everything, bare minimum heat/ac, minimum radio that can easily be replaced, as cheap as possible - is the only reason this doesn't exist because of ever increasing regulations?
Realize that so much climate change coverage (and coverage of most topics) is designed to instill as much fear as possible in you so that you click the link/watch the video/etc. If climate change coverage were honest (we'll see a modest increase in sea level rise vs we have 10 years before we destroy the planet) no one would read it. It's designed to reach some lizard part of your brain and not necessarily be an accurate portrayal of what will actually happen. I'm not denying that climate change is real, but we've had "scientific" pronouncements like this since the 60s or 70s and yet the world goes on and everything hasn't completely collapsed. People were saying I'm the 80s and 90s that we only had till 2000 or 2010 to save the planet and yet here we are. My advice is stop reading the news and go enjoy time in nature.
Is this necessary? The guy is trying to feed his family, not add another zero to his bank account. Would you want people to tell you the same thing if there was an economic collapse where you live? I hope people would extend the same courtesy to you if you or I were in the same situation.