So I was thinking about the brief conversation we'd had about [effective altruism](#effective altruism), and I started writing, and I wrote a lot, so my preamble is that I mean here to put words to a seed of a heuristic I'm working with, not just criticize. But I don't really have a clean phrase for the topic... so I'm tossing this in my daily note, and maybe it'll make sense to move later? 


update: moved to [criticism page](#criticism of effective altruism)


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I don't know really how, but the absolute *indignation* in [this](https://i.redd.it/2ywhib6za0q61.jpg) captures something of the [incrementalist's](#incrementalism) lament. Like, dang, y'all, the rest of the pie is *right there*. 


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Ordered [this book of notebooks.](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0744020433/) It's shallow, but I do find the aesthetic of these things motivating.