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Hannah Boettcher on the mental health challenges that come with trying to have a big impact

80k After Hours

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How to Reconcile a Unitary Aim With Constraints

There are a bunch of examples in other contexts where systems need slack, like businesses that run and have budgets. And I wonder if having those models or those examples closer to hand would help me be like, this is like an established pattern in the world. No one thinks that businesses can run at 100% capacity and like, never have issues. They like all choose to do this thing called slack. Maybe we should just trust, including for profits who want to maximize profit that they are like doing what's best for the company or for the aim.

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