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🌎 "Why Do We Exist?‪"‬ Important, Not Important

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This week: For the next few weeks, I’m rewriting and sharing a selection of essays I wrote in 2020 and 2021, so about two hundred years ago. I think they’re more relevant than ever — I can’t wait to hear what you think.
This week: What would you say you do here? (Originally published July 2020, updated February 2023)
Why do we exist?
After a hundred years of progress, humanity faces stress tests unlike any we’ve faced before, and all at once.
The good news: Your company can help rewrite the future.
Here's What You Can Do:⚡️ The death toll in Turkey and Syria continues to rise. Relief agencies are having a hell of a time, but you can donate to the Syrian American Medical Society, Doctors Without Borders, and World Central Kitchen.⚡️ There’s never been a better time for educators to bring climate crisis solutions into the classroom, and no better tool than the All We Can Save Project.⚡️ Renter? Landlord? Either way you can find out how to green your building with BlocPower.⚡️ Clean up the air in your town with Mom’s Clean Air Force.⚡️ Every boob is different, so help recruit more women to breast cancer studies with WISDOM.
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Please read this David Brooks piece on friendship and depressionSure, yes, electric cars can clean up the air, but please...

This week: For the next few weeks, I’m rewriting and sharing a selection of essays I wrote in 2020 and 2021, so about two hundred years ago. I think they’re more relevant than ever — I can’t wait to hear what you think.
This week: What would you say you do here? (Originally published July 2020, updated February 2023)
Why do we exist?
After a hundred years of progress, humanity faces stress tests unlike any we’ve faced before, and all at once.
The good news: Your company can help rewrite the future.
Here's What You Can Do:⚡️ The death toll in Turkey and Syria continues to rise. Relief agencies are having a hell of a time, but you can donate to the Syrian American Medical Society, Doctors Without Borders, and World Central Kitchen.⚡️ There’s never been a better time for educators to bring climate crisis solutions into the classroom, and no better tool than the All We Can Save Project.⚡️ Renter? Landlord? Either way you can find out how to green your building with BlocPower.⚡️ Clean up the air in your town with Mom’s Clean Air Force.⚡️ Every boob is different, so help recruit more women to breast cancer studies with WISDOM.
News RoundupHealth & Medicine
Please read this David Brooks piece on friendship and depressionSure, yes, electric cars can clean up the air, but please...

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