Interesting… Thank you for elaborating!

To be fair, I think it fits the format quite well - would the high guy know mushrooms aren’t plants? We don’t know!

It’s ok. Your psychologist knows. We all have stuff we don’t want other people to know.

The nice way of thinking about it is that you’re just not comfortable opening up yet, and that’s ok. Literally just say “there’s stuff I’m not comfortable sharing with you yet”, and then talk a bit about your feelings, and expectations.

I was under the impression Canada was actually doing pretty all right? Might have assumed wrong!

Shakes fist, pretending to be angry

[Laughing superiorly in Danish]

Like, sure a lot could be even better, but as a whole, we’re doing quite great!

Question is whether this imaginary number can be reached in a straight path?

I’ve had the following answer suggested: “I’m sorry this has happened to you. Would you like me to just listen, give suggestions, or something else?”

I can recommend the book by Douglas W. Hubbard:

How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

As written by 80000 hours:

To maximise your impact, work on areas (1) that are large in scale, (2) that others neglect, and (3) where it’s possible to make progress. Many people fail to compare the scale of different problems, work on the same problems as everyone else, and support programmes with no evidence of impact. Link

So yeah, global warming is important, but so are other issues, eg preventing disease and hunger.

What I find interesting, that isn’t mentioned in your quote by Bill: There’s other threats that I’d find to be more important though, e.g. threats from AI/AGI, bioweapons, nuclear weapons, pandemics… but perhaps these don’t need capital as much as they need to have people working for organisations that try and solve these issues.

Danish person here, I reckon it also helps a lot that our education is free in the Nordics, and public transport is so good we don’t need to be given a car.

If you run in front of a car, you’ll get tired.

If you run behind a car, you’ll get exhausted.

Their core feature is secure messaging, so I’d say this result highlights their dedication to the secure aspect of it. So an excellent feature in terms of branding, and probably has more benefits in other places e.g. attracting talent, as developers now can see Signal offers great opportunities to work on complex problems.

So I’m curious; what do you think would be better investment of their time?

I tried cognitive behavioural therapy which helped with a bunch of other stuff, but didn’t help me get to the root of my core challenges. I’m with one now which does the following (according to her website):

Theoretically, I am grounded in the psychodynamic tradition and the neuroaffective understanding of attachment and emotional development.

I realized the books I’ve read and got a lot out of may only exist in Danish: “Drop opdragelsen” and “derfor forelsker du dig aldrig i den forkerte”

I’ve been there. Reasons for this might be different depending on who you are. For me, I’d been hurt by the ones that I loved, and subconsciously put up a wall to protect myself so I was “prepared” in case I would get hurt again. On the flipside I also couldn’t be my most authentic self, so I felt a lot more distanced when being with friends and family. For me, a lot of talking, therapy, and books helped me tremendously, but I’m still on a journey.

So yes, it’s normal, and it can get better.

Propane and propane-related accessories

I am Jack’s Overwhelming Sense of Inadequacy

Now that’s smart!

If I’m not AI, can I lie and pretend that I’m AI? I’m AI, btw.

Definitely agree!!