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Is conformism a viable survival strategy?

· 5 min read
David Len
Producer, software developer

We celebrate heroes, entrepreneurs, artists, and independent thinkers. These individuals are often showcased as beacons of innovation and progress.

Yet, despite this glorification, conformism remains is the norm, not exception through all observed history.

The real function of taxes

· 9 min read
David Len
Producer, software developer

Taxes are dumb.

It's hard to be controversial to say so. Most people who worked and earned money for a living would be frustrated by the whole experience that is so embedded in modern society, to the point it becomes something we learned to be helpless about.

This post won't try to change the way taxes work. I'm too small of a player for the legal system to give a damn about. 1

Footnotes

  1. if you can't see what I did there, I'm disappointed.

Why independent people invite troubles

· 7 min read
David Len
Producer, software developer

I am surrounded by independent thinkers. 1

From this limited sampling, I learn that most of these independent thinkers had an episode of being misunderstood, disagreed, or ridiculed by the people around them.

Footnotes

  1. if you can't see what I did there, I'm disappointed.