Jason Doedderlein

Environmentally concerned. Plant-based. Focused on the causes and conditions of human flourishing. You'll often find me running long distances through mountains

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

'When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.' -
Alexander Den Heijer

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

I expect better from the US (as would both of my grandparents who fought in WWII)

https://t.co/5HkOSYVhoh

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

Natural Capital and the Assignment of Value

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[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

The Hidden Costs of a Trade War https://t.co/oTd7PUDmOn

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

Learn to differentiate that which is essential from that which is not essential so you may drop all that is not essential in order to focus all energy only on that which is essential.

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

"Philosophy is an activity that uses reasoning and rigorous argument to promote human flourishing."
– Epicurus

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

This reality always shocks me and this is the first time I have seen the shocking degree to which humans and our animals have taken over the mammal class.

https://t.co/KQOGsZIqef

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

Despite their brief history, computers and AI have fundamentally changed what we see, what we know, and what we do.

Little is as important for the future of the world, and our own lives, as how this history continues.

Read more: https://t.co/pD4oeW4YDR

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

@veganguide_ @gruntvegan Doing what's right over what is convenient.

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

This thing before you, is it critical to what you want in life or a distraction?

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

Focus is simply the act of letting everything, which is not the object of focus, go.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

How much overlap is there between what you say is important to you and how you spent your attention over the last month?

[Candice @runcandice]

Your important goals should be a big rock in a river that the water —your daily life—must go around.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

What starts as an excuse can easily become a habit.

Don't let a bad day become a lifestyle.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found." — Kurt Vonnegut

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

@FutureJurvetson @enriched_ag @VenturesVc Regenerative practices would be lovely. However, the majority of meat, and the associated environmental issues, does not come from grazing. It comes from "concentrated animal feeding operations", representing 85% of all fed cattle in the US, according to the USDA.

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

States cut $5 billion in mental health services and trimmed 4,500 available public psychiatric needs - 10% of total beds - between 2009 and 2012.

And this trend has continued.

Meanwhile, about a quarter of the jail population now consists of those with a serious metal illness.

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

"Being unappreciated means we are simply not paying attention"

- David Whyte

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little."
- Epicurus

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

"To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves and not leave it to others... It is important to understand that this is our responsibility, yours and mine; because, however small may be the world... if we can transform ourselves, then perhaps we shall affect the world"

[Jason Doedderlein @RandomWandering]

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them he is regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his day shearing those woods and making earth bald, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
-- Thoreau