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Politics has replaced religion.

(Obviously not for everyone, but for a lot of people.)
EG heresies, fervor at big sermons, pressure to believe the whole thing and a general all-or-nothing mentality, fealty, excommunications, moralities, redemption, authoritarianism, rituals, high switching costs, crusades, etc...

This seems true for both major US parties.
Oh and questioning central beliefs too much is highly discouraged.
An interesting piece of evidence for this theory would be if more religious people were less politically intense.
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It’s easy and good, but insufficient, to tweet that Black Lives Matter. Here are some harder things:
1) I grew up around anti-Blackness in Missouri. I thought I’d gotten rid of it in college; I had definitely not. I still haven’t fully—I'm still noticing new ways I’ve overlooked Black realities—but I sure want to. Pretending otherwise gets in the way of getting better.
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1 billion masks: 1billionmasks.com

Masks help stop the spread of COVID-19, but they're hard for local governments and essential workers to get.

This is a way to combine forces to get high-quality masks at a good price via crowdfunding.
These masks are not FDA-approved for treating patients with COVID-19, but they are what most people think of as “surgical masks” and provide meaningful protection.

Thanks especially to @maxaltman for doing a lot of work on this!
If there's enough demand (i.e. 1 billion), we'd be able to offer the masks at 32 cents each delivered to Long Beach, CA. If there's less demand, we might proceed anyway at a higher price.
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Asked some very successful founders of the past few years what they wished someone had told them.

Answer: don't dilute so much in early rounds.
There's obvious survivorship bias here, but on the other hand there's something worth listening to--early stage valuations have gotten so high that it's easy to raise a lot of money without thinking about how much you need it.
If you let your seed round creep up to 25-30% dilution, and your A round get to 20-25%, and your B round get to 20%, and throw in an accelerator or a pre-seed round, at some point you will look at it all and say "huh, I wish I had been more disciplined".
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