This is part of an indie web club exercise to describe an object close to me, which at the moment (and most moments) is my phone. It’s a small computer attached to other small computers, the sum total of humanities inventions since the dawn of time. It is the most salient example of the scientific exercise we as a civilization embarked on. A small compact representation of centuries of scientific progress.

Far too often, people like to get hung up on the minutiae and the edge cases of moral conundrums. Stuff that is obviously important but doesn’t apply to morality in the real world in 99.9% of the cases. To be fair, the remaining 0.1% of the cases do come up fairly often when it comes to an equitable distribution of scarce resources which policy makers grapple with fairly often. But for the rest of us, acting nice, to whatever we personally define nice to be will get us through most of life’s decisions.