Diarrhea is way worse then Ebola
11,325 people have died of Ebola since the 2014 outbreak. 760,000 children die of diarrhea every year. Why is Ebola so much more frightening?
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Why you can’t get an international job
This is another one of my old published pieces, but I think it’s still relevant I recently ran into a blog written by a young person (I will assume a woman, but I am not sure) who was frustrated with […]
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thinking backward
Causality is, like all things, shockingly complex. Lately I’ve been thinking about the way that causality never moves in just one direction. This is true for international development and it’s true for daily life. For example, we all know that […]
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How much experience is enough?
How much experience is enough? If of position asks for a “minimum of five years experience”, and you have two; or a minimum of three, and you have one; and you meet the rest of the requirements of a position, […]
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500 years, then
On Wednesday I was wondering what we’ll feel stupid about in 50 years. Donald Trump, and Brexit, and our utter failure in climate change. I’ll add antibacterial resistance to that last, and the achingly slow transition to renewable energy. How […]
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Recommended Reading
Everyone should read this devastating article on the people struggling to provide medical care in Syria. Between the regime, the rebels, the Russians, the Iranians, ISIS and the Kurds, there aren’t a lot of clean hands in the country. The […]
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Wednesday question
What are we doing right now that’s going to make us look really, really stupid in 50 years? Aside from our climate change idiocy. And Donald Trump. And Brexit…
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Anders Kompass is Brave
Anders Kompass ended a thirty-year career with the UN because he saw children being abused and would not let it stand. Kompass was a senior UN official – field operations director at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. […]
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Three reasons I won’t hire you
1 – You tell me you don’t like paperwork. Or that you don’t like sitting at a desk all day. Expatriate international development jobs are like 85% paperwork. If we are in an interview, where you’re on your best behavior, […]
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Climate change is a symptom
We spend a lot of cognitive energy thinking about climate change, but climate change is not our core problem. Climate change is a symptom. It’s an awful symptom that will radically change, possibly destroy life on earth. But we actually […]
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