x% of y = y% of x

So, in order to calculate a percentage in your head it might be easier to turn it around.

What is 4% of 50?

It's the same as 50% of 4.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

I was 19 when I faced death for the first time—my father drank himself to death. It shattered me, leaving me lost in an endless void of questions.

Ernest Becker helped me find meaning again.

I created an illustrated essay to share that light w others lost in the dark 🧵

#comedy #philosophy #comics

An eye for an eye, and we all go blind.

2024, the year truth died.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

How long will it take for this app to become just like the other one?
Is this pessimism?

Haven’t used it yet myself but they say it works: www.sky-follower-bridge.dev