For Jeff (Leah too if she wants), we live in a busy world. What is the best way we can start doing, maybe for a few hours a week, slow/boring work in our communities?
> "Success, therefore, is not about the episodic, momentary victories, though they do play a role. It is about the longer view of incremental steps that produce sustained progress. That, such clinicians argue, is what making a difference really looks like. In fact, it is what making a difference looks like in a range of endeavors." (quote from article)
I think that, from childhood, I was implicitly taught to imagine that all time should be "chiros time" ...that "chronos time" was shoved to the side as "unimportant"...
...Never in those words, of course, but once introduced to the concepts.. I realized that the list of heroes and exploits and success stories that I'd accumulated was "all over" the more "chiros" aspect; not the long, slow (sometimes dull) build-up... that leads to having the character needed to endure a trial, or that cements the depth of relationships needed for a family (or org) to wade through a crisis together.
I would like to ask Mr. Jeff Spross, how should I reconcile the wonderful impact of primary care on extending lives etc with Robin Hanson and his assertions, that medicine as an aggregate does not do much good, or at least it is supposedly hard to demonstrate by numbers. Hanson admits, there is good evidence on some of the medical interventions, but rarely on the whole healthcare. What cancels out the benefits ? Or is Hanson wrong ?
For Jeff (Leah too if she wants), we live in a busy world. What is the best way we can start doing, maybe for a few hours a week, slow/boring work in our communities?
> "Success, therefore, is not about the episodic, momentary victories, though they do play a role. It is about the longer view of incremental steps that produce sustained progress. That, such clinicians argue, is what making a difference really looks like. In fact, it is what making a difference looks like in a range of endeavors." (quote from article)
I think that, from childhood, I was implicitly taught to imagine that all time should be "chiros time" ...that "chronos time" was shoved to the side as "unimportant"...
...Never in those words, of course, but once introduced to the concepts.. I realized that the list of heroes and exploits and success stories that I'd accumulated was "all over" the more "chiros" aspect; not the long, slow (sometimes dull) build-up... that leads to having the character needed to endure a trial, or that cements the depth of relationships needed for a family (or org) to wade through a crisis together.
I would like to ask Mr. Jeff Spross, how should I reconcile the wonderful impact of primary care on extending lives etc with Robin Hanson and his assertions, that medicine as an aggregate does not do much good, or at least it is supposedly hard to demonstrate by numbers. Hanson admits, there is good evidence on some of the medical interventions, but rarely on the whole healthcare. What cancels out the benefits ? Or is Hanson wrong ?