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I don’t like buying things that pollute and deplete. Other than food and building maintenance, I try to keep track of things I buy that are material or cause polluting and depleting. I haven’t kept track of subway and bus fares, but I ride them a couple times a month. April 16: Yesterday I bought an envelope to send a tax form. It cost fifty cents plus four cents tax.[…] Keep reading →

If you don’t get that discipline creates freedom, this post will make no sense to you. If so, probably best not to read it. Regular readers know I found value in taking cold showers. Maybe five years ago, after watching podcast guest Joel Runyon‘s TEDx talk on cold showers then reading his conversation with his readers on his Cold Shower Therapy Guide, which I recommend, I experimented taking a cold[…] Keep reading →

People consistently refer to life without polluting and depleting as returning to the Stone Age. The lack of historical awareness and imagination staggers the mind, or it would mine if I didn’t realize that humans fill our minds with lies, or legitimizing myths, when we are induced to act against our values, to mollify our feelings. I was listening to William MacAskill (bio below) on Sam Harris’s podcast. I’m not[…] Keep reading →

I met Peter in person at a local (Manhattan) event that EarthX hosted for media people. I was invited for hosting this podcast. We spoke about leadership and sustainability. We focused on crossing political boundaries. We shared about our successes in these efforts, how important we consider such tactics and strategies, and how much that success is missing in the US. He invited me to participate in this year’s conference,[…] Keep reading →

This week I finished: How to Get What You Want: Mastering the Art and Science of Persuasion, by podcast guest Josh Bandoch: This book compiles many essential building blocks of persuasion and influence into one place. Josh B. and I talk about it at length in a podcast episode (to be posted soon). I wish I’d had this book decades ago. It handles myths many people hold about persuasion that[…] Keep reading →

Longtime readers know I switched from running to plogging, which led to a bunch of media doing stories on me. I can’t help sharing the stories. The earliest I found was 2018: Then no posts on plogging for almost five years. I didn’t run for a while because somewhere around there I tore the meniscus in my left knee and the insurance company made me do a year of physical[…] Keep reading →

I keep thinking more about what I covered last month in my post Heritage Foundation promoting socialism, as usual. Charlie Kirk did too. Many factors go into how many children people have. One of them is finance: can someone afford to raise kids. I think a lot of people think it’s not fair that it should be harder for people with less money to have kids. Oddly, people also react[…] Keep reading →

Living in Greenwich Village means receiving tons of mailings from democratic politicians. For years I’ve contacted people and companies that spam me with paper mail. I’ve gotten it to near zero, except political mail. Any time there’s an election, they send me tons of their polluting, depleting mailings, unsolicited, unwanted. I don’t know how to stop it because it’s different people each time. Here are a few pieces of pollution[…] Keep reading →

Over and over, people refer to societies that were colonized as indigenous. For example, I see nearly all Native American groups referred to as indigenous. Here’s a dictionary definition of indigenous, which covers the meaning here. indigenous adjective in·​dig·​e·​nous 1 a : produced, growing, living, or occurring natively or naturally in a particular region or environment b usually Indigenous : of, relating to, or descended from the earliest known inhabitants[…] Keep reading →