Fun fact from my biography: when I went to @RadxChange conference in Detroit this March all the capital left after the plane ticket purchase was 15 rubles (25 cents)
@sama Just wanted to share: due to this tweet we started our Lyceum alumni. One of the goals is to start a mentorship program for current students. Here is a photo we made during a reunion in Moscow
"Picasso lived for a total of 33,403 days. With 26,075 published works, that means Picasso averaged 1 new piece of artwork every day of his life from age 20 until his death at age 91. He created something new, every day, for 71 years."
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I'm not saying, obviously, that most nonprofits are run by sociopaths. A disproportionate number of the best people I know run nonprofits. So don't let this phenomenon discourage you from working for or donating to nonprofits. But be aware of it.
Having to make a profit is pretty constraining. You have to satisfy customers or you go out of business. With a nonprofit, there's no intrinsic accountability. If you're a good scammer, the scam need never end. And seeming virtuous is easy when donors already want to believe it.
The most surprising thing I've learned from being involved with nonprofits is that they are a magnet for sociopaths. One's naive reaction is "Why would nonprofits attract them? Nonprofits do good!" But the defining quality of nonprofits is to make no profit, not to do good.
#RadicalxChange so a catalyst to solve old problems through a new lens. These four chapter leaders representing Detroit, Seattle, Universities, and Moscow are discussing practical experimentation of new mechanisms like #quadraticvoting. @RadxChange
Pumped for the conference! I'm speaking about @RxCStudents at 15:45 on the main stage today and encourage anyone interested in starting a local RxC chapter to join. Excited to talk with @elbowspeak @thom_ivy_1@valugansky about our work growing @RadxChange worldwide!
@glenweyl Could you share more details? There are around 60 members in the Russian speaking radical markets group. Some people have an economics background
@alexeyguzey Randomly ran into this tweet. Most likely, this text is from @AlternativaRus
If interested, here is more info about the problem: https://t.co/6VGPZrlA0Z
I'm excited about new Russian language @RadxChange efforts including a new telegram group: https://t.co/OAePsxWl6l and meet-up: https://t.co/RYfqj0EUUk thanks to @valugansky! If you speak Russian and are into @RadxChange I encourage you to get involved!