A Few Useful Thoughts for the Week

Chimichanga, Tacotarian.

Tobias Leenaert:

• YANYA - You Are Not Your Audience - Most people don't want what you want. Start from where they are.
• The real question isn't "Am I right?" but "Does this work?" Pragmatism means choosing what the evidence says is effective - not what feels truest to us. 
• Kindness usually outperforms guilt and shame.

Aidan Kankyoku:

Watching people fuel their self-absorbed lives by chowing down on tortured animal carcasses makes my blood boil. I want to scream at these people. I wish that taking a strong moral stance around veganism as the moral baseline was working. But it just is not. It’s failing spectacularly, with rates of veganism stagnating as the number of animals in factory farms skyrockets.

Sobering but right. Why we came to this 12 years ago.

And just for laughs, here is a reply to a comment I made on a travel rewards thread. I was thanking someone for taking responsibility for a bad decision they made, noting that taking responsibility is rare on the internet:

OK then!