Lina Joana wrote:
Clay McGowen wrote:
For myself, and anyone else like me, who wants a North Star, I back the BEL.
Seems like for you and anyone else who reads and gets lots of value from the boot threads, you would just need to let them know the bel exists, not talk it up, since they already love it.
It it possible to make the tiny add at the bottom of the boots threads am add for the bel? Likewise the ad in any notification emails people get for the bel threads? Seems like that is the lowest hanging fruit, if not everyone who likes those threads is aware of the bel program.
Tiago Simões wrote:You know, we're all just mere humans. Why would we be able to actually understand anything properly, much less make really good decisions about it?
If we humans are lucky enough, maybe some historians and sociologists a couple of centuries from now will have enough hindsight to figure out what we should have done. But who's to tell today that what we permies are doing is actually the best way to invest our time and energy? We can only do our best, and it will have to do. We believe in what we're doing.
Future generations will look back on us mostly like we look back on our ancestors: some really knew what they were doing, but most were clueless to the point of being harmful. What changes is mostly the context (society, ecology, etc.), but humans are and will remain only human.
Have kids, or don't have kids, mostly your decision, depends more on your particular context than on some global ideas about "shoulds". I can't have kids, don't have a choice, and have made peace with that. Not having kids frees up a lot of time to build a better life for me and my wife, make mistakes, figure stuff out, and hopefully serve as an example, but that's just as out-of-my-hands as the hypothetical life choices of my hypothetical kids.
Be the best version of yourself you can in all ways you're capable of, be really useful and caring towards others, and also demanding when that makes sense, keep the humility of remembering you might be wrong at any time... you know, the usual stuff. If you become a really good, strong, happy, fulfilled person, many around you will feel motivated to become like that as well, and the world gets a bit better.
It doesn't matter much whether those people around you are your kids or someone else's. Just be a really good you.
P.s. dear Paul, I write very little here, so please allow me this opportunity to thank you deeply for what you have done with your life so far. You have enabled many to become better humans.
Christopher Weeks wrote:People have talked about the risk of getting a ring caught on machinery or whatever, but one time, my wife closed the car door on my daughter's hand by mistake and her titanium fidget ring held the door apart. She still panicked at being trapped until we got the door open (like 1.5 seconds later), but wasn't hurt at all. So sometimes they can be armor!