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I was done with the church as institution, an institution run by men. It was a place that considered women to be lesser than men. And I considered it immoral to continue to give that institution money, because it would be like giving money to a group that refuses to ordain African Americans or Hispanics. It cannot be justified. For a long time I stopped going to Catholic Mass, with a very sad heart. It was one of the biggest losses in my life. Losing your church is like losing your family.
Building a Life Worth Living
Marsha M. Linehan
To the suffering person, suffering is solely suffering. It is only for others, as a symbol, that suffering takes on any meaning or purpose. No one ever got lynched and thought, Well, at least this will lead inexorably to the civil rights movement. They just shook, suffered, screamed, and died. Pain is the least symbolic thing there is.
The third category, data network effects, describes products which become better with more users via the data those users generate. Waze is a popular example of this category as are products that are powered by machine learning. More users lead to more data which lead to better recommendations or predictions and, thus, a better user experience.
The Power of Defaults
julian.digital
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