YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: March, 2005

Evolutionary Support for Altruism

Lately I’ve been falling into the “too much work to have time to post” trap, which is exactly I was scared about when I started this thing. Incidentally, this is the same reason that Bill Gates didn’t start a blog. I’m going to make a conscientious effort moving forward to be a more frequent poster, [...]

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. “It is one of the most [...]