Optimizing outcomes by thinking the best of people
The alternative perpetuates the festering wasteland of pointlessness...Ah, the festering wasteland of pointlessness.
"We all know it. It’s that place where you feel like crap. Most often, when we feel like crap is when we make other people feel like crap. Crap begets crap. Like yawning: it is contagious.
This is why it’s important to be compassionate, perhaps especially when you feel you shouldn’t be.
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/optimizing-outcomes-by-thinking-the
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
