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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
Shithole
Religious
Crazy
Ghetto
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this past june
i traveled to Malawi
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this past june
i traveled to Malawi
Wait, don’t you know where that is?
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this past june
i traveled to Malawi
Wait, don’t you know where that is?
That’s okay, neither did I.
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Malawi
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Malawi
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Malawi
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Malawi
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i wanted the farthest
place on earth from
where i live
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i live here
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Malawi
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I also knew Malawi was safe,
super friendly, and English-speaking
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Everything else I’m about to share with you
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Everything else I’m about to share with you
I learned after I landed
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how i traveled
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how i traveled
•I went alone
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how i traveled
•I went alone
•I took public transport nearly everywhere
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how i traveled
•I went alone
•I took public transport nearly everywhere
•I talked to the people sitting next to me
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it’s not always easy
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and totally worth it
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but this is not a travel blog
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but this is not a travel blog
and I have a point to make
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to be honest
i figured i could probably
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solve
africas
problems
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with a two week trip
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with a two week trip
i even read a *book*
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spoiler alert:
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spoiler alert:
I didn’t solve Africa’s problems
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I thought at least
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I thought at least
by the end
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I thought at least
by the end
id better appreciate my
life in San Francisco
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and be more grateful
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back to
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Malawi
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in the middle of my trip I met Charles
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in the middle of my trip I met Charles
on Lake Malawi
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like, actually on the lake
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like, actually on the lake
he was fishing in his canoe
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like, actually on the lake
he was fishing in his canoe
and I was paddling around
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like, actually on the lake
he was fishing in his canoe
and I was paddling around
my hostel’s free board
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like, actually on the lake
he was fishing in his canoe
and I was paddling around
my hostel’s free board
we talked for an hour
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like, actually on the lake
he was fishing in his canoe
and I was paddling around
my hostel’s free board
we talked for an hour
and I got sunburnt
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Charles invited me
to visit Chindozwa, his village
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So that evening,
I hailed a taxi there
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the taxi driver was like, are you sure
you have the right destination?
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my back is sunburnt
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
• Financially: The heads of each family
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
• Financially: The heads of each family
contribute money
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
• Financially: The heads of each family
contribute money to a common village
account.
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
• Financially: The heads of each family
contribute money to a common village
account. They can take out at 10% interest
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Here’s some ways Chindozwa works:
• Socially: extended families take care of one
another’s children, esp in case of death
• Judicially: There’s government courts, but
there’s 3+ levels of community arbitration
before it reaches the magistrate
• Financially: The heads of each family
contribute money to a common village
account. They can take out at 10% interest to
invest in housing/agriculture/business/etc.
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to me, that’s quite cool
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to me, that’s quite cool
esp for a village
that even my taxi driver wrote off
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Meet
Alick
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*Pastor Alick
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Pastor Alick is a
Presbyterian
missionary
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Pastor Alick is a
Presbyterian
missionary
in practice that
means social worker
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He started his career
in business/sales/
marketing roles
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He started his career
in business/sales/
marketing roles
20 years ago, at the
age of 30 he decided
to become a pastor
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He is mainly
community supported
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He is mainly
community supported
and he works on
substance abuse and
reducing the birthrate
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What started as small talk
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What started as small talk
got real deep real fast
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So where is your extended
family
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Do you live close to them
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No… not at all.
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In the US, many people don’t.
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If not what do you do
when you have problems
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Uh, people have life coaches and therapists?
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Uh, people have life coaches and therapists?
Friends?
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Uh, people have life coaches and therapists?
Friends?
I guess they move around a lot too.
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How do people know what
tribe they belong to
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People… they find tribes?
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People… they find tribes?
Like sometimes around sports.
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People… they find tribes?
Like sometimes around sports.
Or religions.
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People… they find tribes?
Like sometimes around sports.
Or religions.
A lot of people just don’t have a tribe.
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That was just the beginning
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What is your countrys
staple crop
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Uh, corn? I think?
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What do you grow on your
own land
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Oh, ha. I don’t…
I don’t have land.
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Why dont you have land
are you poor
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I’m not poor, by US standards.
I uh, I make a good salary.
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So where do you get your
food from
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I buy it from the grocery store or restaurants.
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So everything is with money
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Totally!
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If you buy everything with
money
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If you buy everything with
money it sounds like
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If you buy everything with
money it sounds like
you always need a dollar in
your pocket
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That’s a good point. Yeah you do.
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So Americans must save
everything they make
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Er… funny
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Why dont they save a lot
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Because...
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Because... we convince people to buy things…
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Because... we convince people to buy things…
that they don’t need…
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Because... we convince people to buy things…
that they don’t need… on television?
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Like, the facts weren’t new to me
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Like, the facts weren’t new to me
but I finally felt them.
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Like, the facts weren’t new to me
but I finally felt them.
fuuuck
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paradigm shifts
don’t happen to
me every day
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paradigm shifts
don’t happen to
me every day
certainly not to
my fundamental
life assumptions
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saving
africa
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Instead of better understanding Malawi’s problems
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Instead of better understanding Malawi’s problems
(and appreciating life in San Francisco)
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I found myself better understanding San Francisco’s
problems
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I found myself better understanding San Francisco’s
problems
(and appreciating life in Malawi)
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When I was on the Ilala, an overnight ferry
running the same route for more than 70 years
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A fellow passenger mentioned that Malawi was just
shy of being the poorest country in the world
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On Wikipedia, I learned that Malawi’s GDP per capita
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On Wikipedia, I learned that Malawi’s GDP per capita
was less than Haiti,
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On Wikipedia, I learned that Malawi’s GDP per capita
was less than Haiti, North Korea,
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On Wikipedia, I learned that Malawi’s GDP per capita
was less than Haiti, North Korea, Afghanistan,
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On Wikipedia, I learned that Malawi’s GDP per capita
was less than Haiti, North Korea, Afghanistan, or
South Sudan.
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That really surprised me.
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Sure, Malawi wasn’t Monaco.
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But nearly the poorest country in the entire world?
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It didn’t feel THAT poor.
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Sure I knew about its
public health problems
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Sure I knew about its
public health problems
agricultural volatility
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Sure I knew about its
public health problems
agricultural volatility
governmental corruption
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But things seemed functional
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But things seemed functional
peaceful
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But things seemed functional
peaceful
informed
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But things seemed functional
peaceful
informed
hopeful
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There seemed to be lots of value and hard
work and output going around
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Sure, definitely not Monaco.
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But definitely active, motivated
people creating value
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So I took a step back
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So I took a step back
and thought
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So I took a step back
and thought
what is GDP per capita anyways
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So I took a step back
and thought
what is GDP per capita anyways
it’s how much money moves around
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So I took a step back
and thought
what is GDP per capita anyways
it’s how much money moves around
divided by the number of people
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So I took a step back
and thought
what is GDP per capita anyways
it’s how much money moves around
divided by the number of people
as a proxy for value
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So I took a step back
and thought
what is GDP per capita anyways
it’s how much money moves around
divided by the number of people
as a proxy for value
and economic success
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So if value is created,
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So if value is created, but never expresses itself in
currency…
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So if value is created, but never expresses itself in
currency… (and I don’t even mean barter)
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Like when Charles
serves as a
headman/judge
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Like when Charles
serves as a
headman/judge
or takes care of
his brothers’ kids
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Like when Charles
serves as a
headman/judge
or takes care of
his brothers’ kids
or catches a Chomba fish in the lake
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Or when Pastor Alick
grows his own food
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Or when Pastor Alick
grows his own food
or his family receives
help from the local
community
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None of that value counts in the GDP
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None of that value counts in the GDP
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None of that value counts in the GDP
!!!!!!!!!
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interesting.
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btw
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guess what country wins by this metric
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Yes, America.
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
hitchhiking,
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
hitchhiking, finding love,
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
hitchhiking, finding love, buying weed,
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
hitchhiking, finding love, buying weed,
booking a therapist,
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Yes, America.
Where there’s an app for buying groceries,
hitchhiking, finding love, buying weed,
booking a therapist, and catching up with
your friends’ days.
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people are far from
their families,
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people are far from
their families, over-specialized,
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people are far from
their families, over-specialized, & lonely
as fuck.
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people are far from
their families, over-specialized, & lonely
as fuck. Lonelier than they even know.
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Yes, America.
Whose most successful people are far from
their families, over-specialized, & lonely
as fuck. Lonelier than they even know.
Because they don’t even know what to
compare to.
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this include leaving everything behind
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this include leaving everything behind
to go to a desert
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this include leaving everything behind
to go to a desert and live in primitive camps
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this include leaving everything behind
to go to a desert and live in primitive camps and
provide value to one another
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A country whose cultural elite’s best attempts at
solving this include leaving everything behind
to go to a desert and live in primitive camps and
provide value to one another without money
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For 7 whole days!
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(At a time and cost few can afford)
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Carrying stockpiles from Amazon and Walmart
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
“Don’t just use your beliefs to measure reality,
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
“Don’t just use your beliefs to measure reality,
but also use reality to measure your beliefs.
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
“Don’t just use your beliefs to measure reality,
but also use reality to measure your beliefs.
If the idiot keeps getting it right,
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
“Don’t just use your beliefs to measure reality,
but also use reality to measure your beliefs.
If the idiot keeps getting it right, it might not be
them who is the idiot.”
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WITTGENSTEIN’S RULER
“Don’t just use your beliefs to measure reality,
but also use reality to measure your beliefs.
If the idiot keeps getting it right, it might not be
them who is the idiot.”
@george__mack via Twitter
(paraphrasing Nasim Taleb’s Fooled by Randomness)
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yikes.
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Let’s go back to Malawi.
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something i observed
when traveling around
Malawi
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something i observed
when traveling around
Malawi
I was one of very few travelers there on holiday.
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something i observed
when traveling around
Malawi
I was one of very few travelers there on holiday.
Almost all foreigners I met served as volunteers.
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something i observed
when traveling around
Malawi
I was one of very few travelers there on holiday.
Almost all foreigners I met served as volunteers.
Others were doctors in training from Europe,
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something i observed
when traveling around
Malawi
I was one of very few travelers there on holiday.
Almost all foreigners I met served as volunteers.
Others were doctors in training from Europe,
and some were researchers.
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by the end
i was thinking
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by the end
i was thinking
it makes as much sense
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by the end
i was thinking
it makes as much sense
for Malawians
to volunteer in the US
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by the end
i was thinking
it makes as much sense
for Malawians
to volunteer in the US
as it does for us
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by the end
i was thinking
it makes as much sense
for Malawians
to volunteer in the US
as it does for us
to send volunteers there
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I don’t want to over-idealize Malawi
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our fundamental values differ
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our fundamental values differ
to say the least
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there definitely weren’t
any pride parades happening
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and no shortage of sad things
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that doesn’t mean there’s nothing
to learn from Malawi either
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“Africa taught me to be patient,
cautious, a bystander and
eavesdropper;
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“Africa taught me to be patient,
cautious, a bystander and
eavesdropper; not a high-profile
philanthropist with big schemes
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“Africa taught me to be patient,
cautious, a bystander and
eavesdropper; not a high-profile
philanthropist with big schemes but
just a humble helper.”
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“Africa taught me to be patient,
cautious, a bystander and
eavesdropper; not a high-profile
philanthropist with big schemes but
just a humble helper.”
Paul Theroux
Peace Corps Volunteer, Malawi 1963
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we can learn things from
from the third wo
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we can learn things from
from the third
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we can learn things from
from the third wo
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we can learn things from
from the
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we can learn things from
the third wor
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Third world.
that feels weird to say
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Why do we call it that
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People aren’t stupid or lazier than we are
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And what the hell does that make us?
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So.
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So. That's when I started
asking myself,
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city-ivy-league-
educated
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city-ivy-league-
educated-secular
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city-ivy-league-
educated-secular-liberal
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city-ivy-league-
educated-secular-liberal-
urban bubble
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So. That's when I started
asking myself, hm, what
other labels does my
techie-city-ivy-league-
educated-secular-liberal-
urban bubble use?
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Whatever they are,
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Whatever they are, even
if they’re not 100% my
values,
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Whatever they are, even
if they’re not 100% my
values, there’s probably
something there for
me to learn.
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If there’s a label,
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If there’s a label, there’s
probably a bit of truth
there.
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If there’s a label, there’s
probably a bit of truth
there. They’ve probably
figured out something
that I haven’t.
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If GDP per capita
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If GDP per capita
turned out to be kind of
bullshit,
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If GDP per capita
turned out to be kind of
bullshit, what other
metrics do we use
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If GDP per capita
turned out to be kind of
bullshit, what other
metrics do we use to
quietly, implicitly
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If GDP per capita
turned out to be kind of
bullshit, what other
metrics do we use to
quietly, implicitly
marginalize ideas?
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Third world
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Third world
Hippie
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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
Shithole
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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
Shithole
Religious
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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
Shithole
Religious
Crazy
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Third world
Hippie
Redneck
Shithole
Religious
Crazy
Ghetto
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When I hear my brain
apply a label,
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When I hear my brain
apply a label, instead of
looking the other way,
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When I hear my brain
apply a label, instead of
looking the other way, I
need to make a habit
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When I hear my brain
apply a label, instead of
looking the other way, I
need to make a habit of
getting curious.
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When I hear my brain
apply a label, instead of
looking the other way, I
need to make a habit of
getting curious.
What’s hidden there?
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the end
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yknow
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in Malawi
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the best part
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was making direct connections
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with people I met
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rather than scrolling instagram
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or via message boards
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and hey
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here we are
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however you got here
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lets make a direct connection
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that sounds weird
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i just mean id love your email
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because
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the next time i make one of these
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i can find you again
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and hand it to you
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over email
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you can subscribe here
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it would mean
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THE WORLD
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to me
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i swear
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i refresh mailchimp
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and when the number goes up
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by one
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it makes my day
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