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Another woman who wants (say) a religiously serious family man with a good job might well find that men in her dating pool are indifferent to tattoos but care deeply about whether she likes reading science fiction and playing D&D. Presumably, she projects a shy, nerdy vibe—the kind of girl an Orson Scott Card fan…
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The community should be rooting for you to outshine the high-status people. Regardless of what the community values—artistic achievement, real-world success, morality, fame, positive impact on the lives of others—it should be clear that it is good, cool, and desirable for you to do better than the people who are currently high-status. A healthy high-demand…
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customer service people get tons of complaints, it’s probably genuinely meaningful for them to occasionally have someone email their manager to compliment them instead of complain about them — Read on www.atvbt.com/send-appreciation-notes-to-companies/ I worked in a call center during college, and can confirm how exceedingly rare this is, and how wonderful it is to get…
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I used to think of “knowledge projects” as involving a big mission, a big community, and a complex piece of software: the stuff of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, or Genius….But the web is just as good for collaborations in the small. Not so long ago, I took a poem I wanted to understand better and sent…
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Of course, sometimes that feeling is anxiety about some of our more imperialist habits, but there’s definitely still a lot of joy.
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Nihilism’s last gasp, and other links of the day.
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