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Dave Cortright
Silicon Valley, CA
Coach · Advisor · Effective Altruist · Designer · Consultant· FI advocate · Environmental Conservationist · Vegan
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Posted Nov 13, 2022 at Designing This Life
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The Easterlin Paradox is explained by the Maslow Hypothesis
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Posted Sep 18, 2022 at Designing This Life
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Record the system audio on your Mac with Blackhole and the Audio MIDI Setup app
Ever want to record the audio that is playing through your Mac speakers/headphones? Then Blackhole is the tool for you. Once installed, you will need to open the Audio MIDI Setup app (which comes preinstalled on your Mac), created a new multi-output device by clicking the ➕ in the lower-left... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2022 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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A lateral thinking perspective on mindfulness and meditation: “sensefulness” or “present sense”
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Posted May 25, 2022 at Designing This Life
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Grant’s Razor: the only thing that truly matters in life are your relationships
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Posted May 21, 2022 at Designing This Life
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A pragmatic framework for making A/B decisions
Here's a framework I use for A or B decisions. There are 3 scenarios: One is clearly better than the other. They are both about the same I'm not sure; more data is needed. 1 & 2 are easy. In the first case, choose the better one. In the second,... Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2022 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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Create your own clickable Zoom meeting link
Let's say you were invited to a Zoom meeting, but you only have the ID and the password. What do you do? You plug it into this handy template: zoommtg://zoom.us/join?confno=XXX&pwd=YYY&uname=ZZZ confno (XXX in the example above) is the meeting ID number (numbers only; no spaces). pwd (YYY) is the password.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 29, 2022 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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We are all always teachers; we are all always students
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Posted Apr 27, 2022 at Designing This Life
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Use Airalo to purchase a mobile phone data plan eSIM before your international trip
Many modern phones support eSIMs, which makes getting your phone onto a network in another country super easy (barely an inconvenience). I used Airalo to buy a data plan for my recent trip to the UK. $10 for 3 GB of data (discounted to $7 with a coupon code). The... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2022 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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The Roseto Effect shows the extreme power of good relationships for health and wellness
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Posted Mar 29, 2022 at Designing This Life
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Vulnerable authenticity bridges divides
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Posted Mar 11, 2022 at Designing This Life
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The Dalai Lama on our inner critic
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Posted Mar 2, 2022 at Designing This Life
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The acceptance gap
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Posted Jan 23, 2022 at Designing This Life
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The problem with judgement: it leads to bias
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Posted Jan 6, 2022 at Designing This Life
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Good and bad are just stories we tell ourselves
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Posted Dec 20, 2021 at Designing This Life
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Tribal societies are like atoms in the 3 standard states (solid, liquid, gas); modern society is plasma
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Posted Dec 19, 2021 at Designing This Life
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Levels of intimacy in our relationships are like backer levels on Kickstarter (Dunbar’s Number)
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Posted Dec 11, 2021 at Designing This Life
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The more we know, the more we know we don’t know
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Posted Dec 10, 2021 at Designing This Life
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Unicode text converter spices up your text online
Posted Dec 10, 2021 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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The three essential truths: humans are social, deceptive, and adapted for the infinite game
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Posted Dec 8, 2021 at Designing This Life
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You must first “consider the possibility” before change can happen
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Posted Dec 7, 2021 at Designing This Life
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The elegance of evolution: code reuse in the human brain
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Posted Dec 7, 2021 at Designing This Life
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Finite vs infinite games and how they affect your happiness
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Posted Nov 22, 2021 at Designing This Life
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The online version of small PDF is one more click off the home page
Small PDF is still my go-to online tool for compressing large PDF files. I noticed that to get to the compression tool, you need to scroll down and click a link first. Here's the direct link: https://smallpdf.com/compress-pdf Continue reading
Posted Nov 2, 2021 at Info Tech for Non-Profits
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The meta meta-narrative: I need to be a certain way to be worthy of love and belonging
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Posted Nov 1, 2021 at Designing This Life
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