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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-43468066

Sadly, one of four remaining Rhino species is now extinct. The last few generations of humans have been incredibly selfish and have been destroying the place us future generations of humans need to live to make their own lives better in the short term. Those generations will be known for the rest of history for their selfishness.

 

Set record times for myself even though we had an unexpected start and we’re stuck in the back.

Bain Capital is an evil private equity firm that buys out companies, then loads them up with debt and extracts as much cash as it can then abandons the company. They just struck again, taking down Toys R Us.

And these guys get special tax breaks.

I think many people let themselves be constantly stressed out or wishing things were different. If you compare even the worst off people’s lives today to the lives of the best off humans of 50,000 years ago, things are enormously better. Most people now have no problem getting food, shelter, water, and the majority have security from physical harms.

I have been working on a seemingly endless list of bugs for my new recruiting application. It seems that every time I finish one, another two pop up.

Often these bugs or features are pretty enormous chunks of work and I sometimes shy away form doing them.

What I have come to realize about hard tasks I don’t want to start is that I usually have either poorly defined the work to be done or need to break it down into a series of smaller tasks.… read more “Tackling Hard Tasks”