the Wheat and the Chaff

Do things that don’t scale

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Paul Graham of Y Combinator writes very well about why he often advises start-ups to do things that don’t scale.

The vegan carnivore?

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It’s made in a lab, no factory farms and no killing, but it’s still meat. Julian Baggini writes for Aeon on why it looks like we’ll need a whole new food ethics.

The psychology of worry

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This is an excellent post from Maria Popova on what the psychology of suicide prevention teaches us about controlling every day worries.