A story of my experience with direct giving https://nonzerosum.games/saidi.html #charity #effort #luck #chance #meritocracy #effectivealtruism #philosophy #globalvillage #duty #kindness #generosity #friendship

A story of my experience with direct giving https://nonzerosum.games/saidi.html #charity #effort #luck #chance #meritocracy #effectivealtruism #philosophy #globalvillage #duty #kindness #generosity #friendship
Lucky penny wall art, home decor, and lifestyle products.
I've heard of hanging a horsehoe on a barn for good luck. Even a wagon wheel.
But an old tractor clutch plate?
"Mate, how much #luck do you NEED? … uh oh, who have you pissed off *this* time?"
I have worked in #IT for a very long time, probably too long. I am convinced that when it comes to #technology I can work exactly one miracle per day, and no more. IDK if it's #luck or #mana or #dnd spell slots or what. But more often than not I need to tread lightly for the rest of the day because I'm out of juice.
Im Kölner Quartier #LÜCK zeigt ein Vorzeigeprojekt, wie brennstofffreie #Wärmeversorgung gelingen kann.
Eine #Großwärmepumpe nutzt #Abwasserwärme und #Solarstrom für über 200 Wohnungen. Unterstützt von Power-to-Heat-Technik sorgt das System für effizientes und klimafreundliches #Heizen.
#luck : an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual
- French: chance
- German: das Glück
- Italian: fortuna
- Portuguese: sorte
- Spanish: suerte
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I’m not saying I have bad #luck - but if I fell in a barrel of titties, I’d come out suckin’ my own thumb.
https://www.europesays.com/2056446/ Whangārei house badly damaged after speeding car flies over property, crashes #after #airborne #badly #before #being #CAR #crashes #crashing #damaged #flies #flying #from #house #hurt #luck #NewZealand #over #property #residents #roof #seriously #sheer #speeding #stopped #that #through #went #whangrei #when
I can finally make higher quality videos! Longer ones too as I have an SD card.
In typical poor person luck fashion I got it in a very strange way too.
I went to a garage sale, and they had a phone with a cracked screen they were gonna throw out, that they weren't even selling.
I asked if I could take it, and I popped open the SD slot and it had a 256 gig card that still worked!
I was working with 64 gigs of internal, which really was only 7 after apps/system stuff.
Once in a while the #CosmicJoker smiles on someone who needs it. I hope he gets his money soon and can live better.
> Homeless man wins $1M jackpot from California lottery scratch-off: ‘Man, I’m not homeless anymore!’ https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/homeless-man-wins-1m-jackpot-from-california-lottery/
Blessed be the #DivineHumor.
#Lottery #luck #California
The 4 Types of Luck by Sahil Bloom [Shared]
The 4 Types of Luck
In 1978, a neurologist named Dr. James Austin published a book entitled Chase, Chance, & Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty.
In it, Dr. Austin proposed that there are four types of luck:
Blind Luck
Luck from Motion
Luck from Awareness
Luck from Uniqueness
Here's how to think about each type:
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/15/the-4-types-of-luck-by-sahil-bloom-shared/
Now that I'm retired, I've had some time to think back on my whole career. With this perspective, it's become clear to me that a lot of things I thought were really important, just aren't in the big picture. Anyway, I wrote a short article about what made my career successful, and about the best thing I ever did.
You can read it on my no-ads, no-tracking, personal site.
https://schrag.ca/articles/the-secret.html
(Another nice thing about retirement is not having to build an audience or hustle for work. I can just write openly and not worry if it's going to annoy anyone.)
"Our world should be at its most analyzable, explicable — but still it can feel like sorcery."
Eric Boodman for New York magazine: https://longreads.com/2025/04/08/does-luck-exist/
#Longreads #Luck #Chance #Probability #Philosophy#Superstition
Chess is a game of luck
Salvation Army is good for the soul.
A place where they have endless amounts of clothing my size, because I am tall and skinny unlike most Americans so they pile up, because nobody buys them.
A place where pants don't cost 60-100 dollars for absolutely NO REASON.
I bought a pair of really nice skinny jeans today, and they cost 15 dollars, and actually cost 5 dollars, because someone left a 10 in the pocket.
I got tacos with the ten.
Good days!
Ich wünsche euch einen glücklichen Tag!
Ein Glückstag - handgemaltes Aquarell
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!
A lucky day handmade watercolor painting: https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/a-lucky-day-karen-kaspar.html