It’s a really great and inspiring article as I’m thinking of taking a Maths course myself. After being a straight A student in school, I graduated a Linguistic department and here I am thinking I can barely add sufficient sums in my head. I guess the disadvantage of Not knowing Maths is different thinking from tech guys who I need to communicate a lot to. The thing that can cross the bridge of misunderstanding should be Math thinking. So thank you for a kick to get the ball rolling.
Have you also tried Sports Nutrition, they also have shakes and powders –some proteins, the ingredients can be similar. The whole article sounds like a fancy way to reinvent a bike. What’s new in this substitution food endeavor? One can live for 30 days on shakes and sports nutrition, or it can be used as a supplement to traditional food. One can even leave with No food at all if drinking a lot of water and juices for 30 days, some people do that. Why investing several millions in it? To create another hype?
Do you really think that poor kids stop dying of preventable diseases if every single person who’s reading HN changes? Inner change is not the vaccine, it can’t feed people, it can’t help with improving living conditions for the poor countries. It’s Doing something for them that should help. Bill Gates is so right at having his own plan how to help people and offering us to take part in it. The actions should help not mere inner change.
Internal change can solve most every problem, because most every problem is a reflection of an internal conflict.
It sounds far fetched, but when you boil people's problems down to what they really are, you'll see the traditional western way of fixing things tends to invent a technical solution to make up for where the previous one failed.
For example, factory-made pesticides that cause hyper-evolution in weeds that try to resist. A newer more powerful pesticide can't fix the problem created by the old pesticide.
