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four main ingredients of moral ambition:
1 the idealism of an activist
2 the ambition of a startup founder
3 the analytical mind of a scientist
4 the humility of a monk
— Oct 10, 2026 02:26AM
four main ingredients of moral ambition:
1 the idealism of an activist
2 the ambition of a startup founder
3 the analytical mind of a scientist
4 the humility of a monk
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Alice
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And if you don't feel like you're among the richest people on the planet, think of the words of the old Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.'
— Oct 10, 2026 03:03AM
And if you don't feel like you're among the richest people on the planet, think of the words of the old Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky: 'Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.'
Alice
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Changing the world often starts in the quiet places, where others don't think to go.
— Oct 10, 2026 02:57AM
Alice
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The invention of the bicycle gave women more freedom of movement than ever, and the famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony considered a woman riding a bike 'the picture of untrammelled womanhood'. The bicycle did away with 'old-fashioned, slow-going notions of the gentler sex', according to a Nebraska newspaper in 1895, and paved the way for 'some new woman, mounted on her steed of steel'.
— Oct 10, 2026 02:41AM
The invention of the bicycle gave women more freedom of movement than ever, and the famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony considered a woman riding a bike 'the picture of untrammelled womanhood'. The bicycle did away with 'old-fashioned, slow-going notions of the gentler sex', according to a Nebraska newspaper in 1895, and paved the way for 'some new woman, mounted on her steed of steel'.
Alice
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When asked who held the patent to his vaccine [Dr Salk], he famously replied, 'Well, the people, I'd say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?'.
Today, polio is nearly eradicated.
— Oct 10, 2026 02:36AM
When asked who held the patent to his vaccine [Dr Salk], he famously replied, 'Well, the people, I'd say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?'.
Today, polio is nearly eradicated.
Alice
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One thing's certain: scientific innovations have saved more lives than all the Malalas, Mandelas, and Mother Theresas combined.
That's why it's especially tragic that so many whiz kids spend their time building pointless apps and algorithms. If we want to take on the big challenges of our time, we're going to need an army of morally ambitious science geeks.
— Oct 10, 2026 02:34AM
One thing's certain: scientific innovations have saved more lives than all the Malalas, Mandelas, and Mother Theresas combined.
That's why it's especially tragic that so many whiz kids spend their time building pointless apps and algorithms. If we want to take on the big challenges of our time, we're going to need an army of morally ambitious science geeks.
Alice
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"That element of serendipity in Rob's big career switch makes me hopeful. You don't have to play the Good Samaritan all your life to make a difference. You can be your average exec in your average company one day, and then take the lead in fighting one of the world's deadliest diseases the next. You can catch the moral ambition bug and start to transform your life and career."
— Oct 10, 2026 01:40AM
Alice
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"Much of modern protest seems too fleeting. Heavy on intuition, light on strategy. Heavy on intentions, light on results. 'Being on the right side of history, writes Tufekci, doesn't insulate one from weak analyses.'"
— Oct 10, 2026 01:18AM
Alice
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" To put it bluntly: awareness is overrated. The fact that people are aware of various injustices doesn't mean they'll act on that knowledge - on the contrary. We hold all kinds of opinions on all kinds of matters, but we generally do little with our viewpoints."
Rip, ain't that the truth..
— Sep 15, 2026 10:18AM
Rip, ain't that the truth..
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Regardless, you can't be afraid to come across as weird if you want to make a difference. Every milestone of civilisation was first seen as the crazy idea of some subculture or another, from the Pythagorean theorem to the conviction that slavery is depraved.
— Jul 11, 2026 07:27AM
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
- Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (1858-1928)
— Jul 11, 2026 06:30AM
Join a cult (or start your own)
"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."
- Emmeline Pankhurst, suffragette (1858-1928)