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White Privilege – I cannot hide

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Yesterday I woke up with a new idea.

I hope it sparks a revolution.

I think it will change the world for the better. I know it will change race relations, police relations, and put an end police brutality in the United States.


This was motivated by my sadness because I feel helpless as I watch people of color express their feelings of frustration and feelings of despair because of the way our world and our system continues to treat them.

I also feel helpless too because I am an old white man. I know I can never understand their situation because I cannot walk a mile in their shoes. Kyle Korver said it so much better than I ever could in his article last year while he was a member of the Utah Jazz. https://www.theplayerstribune.com/en-us/articles/kyle-korver-utah-jazz-nba


This is my proposal. I think we should stop hiring men as police officers. I think we should only hire women and probably better to only hire women of color to be police officers.

I have come to this idea because of several things I have learned over the last 10 years of my life.

The first exposure to this way of thinking started when I learned from Mohamed Yunis the pioneer of microfinancing, that microfinancing in the third world is only available to women. I asked why, “Because women make their lives better and improve the lives of their children.” If men get more money they spend it on alcohol and sex, they don’t improve the lives of their families.

A similar thing is happening in Mexico. They have a program that pays rural farming families to have their girls go to school to create an environment that promotes the education of girls. Guess what. Only the mothers can pick up the money.

A book I read titled “The Better Angles Of Nature” by Steven Pinker points out that the world has become a much safer place over the last 50 years which is correlated with the increase in women’s rights.

As I thought about this idea more It could be carried over to politics.
This is going to be my personal initiative from now on. No matter what my political affiliation I am going to vote for and support women as candidates especially women of color.
You might ask.

How can we get women into the police force? And how to keep men out. Well, we pay them twice or better yet three times what we pay men.

Join the revolution, it’s going to start with by voting for women.

Ultralearning – Scott H Young

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I started reading Ultra Learning this week. It covers aspects of how to learn things faster and better. Scott, the author has done some amazing things like passing all of the final tests for an MIT computer science degree in a year and learning four languages in a year. (Spanish, Portuguese, Korean and Chinese) check out his website.

That sounds amazing to me. I have not finished the book yet, but I like it so far and I will read it again to start on my own Ultra learning journey.

It covers techniques and theories about people that have accomplished some amazing learning techniques and the processes they used to do these things.

One of the things it has inspired in me is that I can be more effective in the new things I learn and how to better identify where I should choose to put my efforts.

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions.

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Here it is already the fifth of May and I realized the last time I posted was April 14th. My Goal, last month, and this month is a journal entry every day. Always good intentions.

I actually made two entries in one one that I am going to count as journal entries, maybe I’ll figure out a way to get those to automatically post here.

I am back going to work in an office. Something that I hadn’t done for about six weeks. This Covid-19/Corona virus thing is way out there.

It is interesting as I listen to people tell their story and their version of reality. Even though we are all living on this earth. We are living in our own set of reality. I am also realizing many are not even close to being parallel universes.

It’s as if we are alone in our own universe and instead of combining we seems to just be bouncing off of everyone else.

Beware your charging will be slower than normal.

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That was the first time I had ever seen that message. I saw it on my phone this morning when I plugged it in to charge. I have had my current phone about a year and a half, and I was surprised to see that message. I have left off one detail; it also included the news that the reason for the slow charging was the cold temperature of the phone.

when I started a run this morning, it was 27 degrees, but it felt like 21, according to my weather app on my phone it would feel like 21 because of the 48% humidity. I have run and biked before in the cold, maybe in temperatures colder than this. However, it must have been the first time I tried to plug my phone in to charge right after I had been exercising in the cold. There have been a couple of times when I got home; my phone was dead. I figured then the lower temperatures are what caused my phone to die sooner than I expected.