GiraffeAnd3quarters

My beagle finds chicken bones all the time around the neighborhood. I guess people just toss them in the bushes and lick their fingers.

How much does collecting data help? For example, if I go pick up litter for an hour, with your app or without it, how much more (or less?) good am I doing in the world?

How can network organizations avoid being misunderstood as hierarchies?

I'm part of a startup founder network. We're absolutely a network -- we connect people, but we can't tell anyone what to do. But occasionally we get written about in the press like we secretly control everything, and various organic trends are all part of our master agenda.

Some of the organizations you discuss in the book, like the Illuminati, actively encouraged people to think they were all-powerful puppet masters. That proved to be a costly PR blunder for them when the governments felt threatened. We're not making that mistake, but I wonder what else you can recommend to network organizations to avoid being misunderstood by outsiders as hierarchies?

Overpopulation is a reasonable thing to care about, but AIDS is not a good way of controlling it. Dying of AIDS is long and painful, and usually happens after childbearing age, so it's both inhumane and ineffective. Birth control is the right way to control population growth.

Every paddlewheel boat I've seen, the paddlewheel isn't actually driven. It just spins freely in the water. Why is that? Are working paddlewheels horribly impractical? Do they not work well with rudders?