Patience and Compromise are your two new best friends.

A)Teeth are sorta like regular ol' bones 'cept they're on the outside of your body and their purpose is to grind things. B) You don't really need all of them to survive + evolution. C) Humans live a really long time now and we just expect our mashy-grinders to keep up? D) Enamel doesn't like sugar which is in everything.

Bam. Scientific American here I come.

This piece is extremely readable. Kudos to the author.

This is a terrific article. Two thumbs up.

To help develop your capacity for empathy (which is a skill you can work on) I suggest actively envisioning situations from other peoples' perspectives.

For example, say you have some delicate news you need to deliver to a coworker. Follow these steps: A) Close your eyes, B) construct the situation in your head, C) take the role of your coworker, and D) imagine delivering the news to yourself. It's impossible to do this 100% correctly because you are not your coworker but you'll get more than you'd think from exercise.

This is especially true if you practice step C).

Hey @rcarmo - So you're gonna sell these right? Bc I'll take way more than I ever previously thought I would spend on business cards.

Buying these would defeat the purpose though.

@paxys - Not sure what purpose you're referring to. Sure, purchasing them would defeat the purpose of making your own business card, but not the traditional purpose of having a business card that's cool & which doesn't immediately get tossed in the garbage after you give it out.

I imagine these aren't for sale, but I'm just throwing it out there that I would prly buy them if they were.

Google maps is only profitable on the basis of advertising syndication & data collection. If you're not pumping google information about how people are using your map service or directing people to the sites of google's ads customers, they are probably losing money by serving you.

The issue is similar to the one that ruined their custom search offering: it doesn't make them enough money to justify its existence as anything more than a public service. Unless charity is what Google had in mind when they launched the api, their behavior makes business sense.

People have been talking about this for at least a decade & I wonder when the shoe will actually drop.

I forgot who said it but "bubbles grow far bigger than is rationally thought possible, and fall far faster than anyone expects".

These bubble can go on for decades but once it bursts, the bottom of the bucket drops out and all the water goes with it.

Probably should be that the pop fast, not fall fast. In real life bubbles fall quite slowly.

With my luck, in about 5.5 years when my kid is done with his bachelor's degree.

Free college for all coming in Fall 2025!

Highly doubt that will ever happen. Imagine trying to sell the idea to non-college educated, parents who have paid for college, or former-students who have paid off loans. It might get a few cheers at a primary rally but I highly doubt it would ever gain enough traction to get through the house and the senate

I think it will once the media declares it more of an emergency. It seems that the magnitude and exponential nature of the growth is forgotten and that soon enough it will reduce the demand on many products and services.