Microdose #δdelta: How I fell for the Afghan “war rugs” scam

Why did myself and other NY Times readers see these as an organic expression of Afghan culture? The appeal of the trauma market.

Roberts’ Green Letter: Actionable EQ for responsible industry. 
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Dear friends and colleagues,

This brief Letter shares a single topic that blew my mind over the course of the last 10 years, culminating last week.

In high school I would stop at the librarian’s main desk every afternoon to read The New York Times in print. I would clip articles that made me think. I still have a file of some.

The article pictured here, Despite Conflict and Repression, Creativity, ran in 2014—well after my high school career.

I read it online so I couldn’t clip it. But I didn’t have to bookmark or “Like” it for it to remain wedged in my mind.

It suckered me on so many levels…