thank you for sharing this sobering but hopeful perspective

The truth includes both the other comments to this reply: modern science has given us more insight into our long standing problems (and some solutions too), but also technology that can be detrimental to our mental health. Yes it's true that both a poison and its antidote can be drunk from a cup. But people might be aversive to the cup they drank the poison from, even if it now contains the antidote. And to think the cup is the only way to administer the antidote may exclude a lot of people who might other benefit from the service

Bloomberg LP is essentially a revenue generating arm for Bloomberg Philanthropies with >80% of revenue getting donated. The volunteering culture at Bloomberg LP itself is also fairly strong, compared to other medium/large tech companies, so there's a lots of opportunity to give back beyond knowing your revenue is going towards good projects. See [1] below for more info.

Aside from donating time and money, the company's service is also seen as a fundamental piece of the global economy today. Providing a common baseline of financial data and price transparency of assets creates liquidity and helps keep asset prices low. It also allows smaller players to enter the financial services industry without needing to be in the "Old Boys' Club". It also helps developing countries and other emerging markets to list their sovereign debt and manage investors.

1: https://www.bloomberg.org/

Must be of profits, no? But agreed, Mr. Bloomberg seems to be a prolific giver (although he also did drop $1b on a vanity run for President, not sure how effective a use of funding that was, but generally his donations are very well thought out and high impact)

Ah yes you're right it's profits!

> Bloomberg LP is essentially a revenue generating arm for Bloomberg Philanthropies with >80% of revenue getting donated.

is there somewhere i can read more about this specifically?

Hi didn't mean to ghost ya. I should have given the disclaimer that I'm work at Bloomberg LP too.

I've seen & heard that percentage figure internally, especially as it's increased over the past decade. But I can't seem to find it in 10minutes of searching public documents.

I agree on Rands In Repose. The articles helped me pivot my priorities from shipping code to helping my team ship code. Here's a gist of the articles i found the most helpful: https://gist.github.com/samarkamat/f19a4c4596550429eae1b95cb...

Funny how we both gave disclaimers with our recommendations.

Given you like survival stories, I'm guessing you've also read Unbroken. But on the off chance you haven't, definitely check it out!

Considering that both of you are who you are, I recommend "A miracle in the Andes".

Thanks for recommending "438 days" - I'm adding it to my list. And yes, I really enjoyed "Unbroken".

Appreciate the recommendation, this has been on my wish list forever! Finally pulled the trigger and bought it after your comment.

this is a hallmark of good software, and a breath of fresh air to see, given the amount of proprietary lock-in in software today.

thanks! we try to be both compatible and open about everything we do. more details on that in our handbook -> https://handbook.dendron.so/

This is a huge part of what led me to adopting Dendron (and eventually contributing to and working on the project): the importance of interoperability. Seeing progress being made toward importing docs from Google docs, importing content from GitHub issues, adding other public vaults into my local workspace (like the TL;DR docs seed), etc. were great.