How to Survive

Why it's so much easier *and* so much more complicated than ever before

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“We’ll never survive!”

“Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.”

— William Goldman, "The Princess Bride”

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THIS WEEK

What are the four — fine, six — things you need to survive?

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What We Can Do

What do you need to survive?

There are a default group of problems that exist in our society because of the basic needs required to be a human.

They are:

  • Air

  • Water

  • Food

  • Sleep

These, our most primal needs, are more or less biologically inarguable, and the good news is, we understand them very well and have made enormous progress to ensure they are accessible to a greater percentage of humans than ever before.

There have been tradeoffs along the way, of course, including plundering most of the solar system’s single habitable planet’s resources.

Anyways I’m very interested in using these essays to ask questions like “Yes, that’s true, but what about everyone else?” or “What else happened during that time?” or “What part of the story isn’t being told?” or “But what were the costs of progress?” and of course “If X is where we want to go, what systems do we need to design to get there, and what legacy bullshit do we have to stop?”

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