Small World Perk

We recently introduced a new perk at Happy Scribe.

“Everyone has a Personal Travel Budget of €1000/year. You can pay travel expenses such as flights, taxis, hotels and cars… to see your friends, family or do anything”

Why?

Our lives are in multiple countries

Contrary to people in the past, in 2021 we no longer live in small towns where nobody leaves their parents village.

We’re an international team. Andre’s family is in France. Leo’s in Italy. Oscar’s in Vietnam. Chiara’s in Peru. Pau’s in Mallorca. Claudia’s in Italy. Madelyn’s in Mexico. Giulia’s in Italy. Shane’s in Ireland. Yoel’s in Galicia, etc… And a lot of our best friends and hobbies are not in Barcelona. Our lives are scattered around the world.

Making distances shorter

It would be great if we could advance in time and have a couple of the upcoming tech advances that will make physical distance shorter: self-driving, faster planes, teleport (?) etc…

Meanwhile, this perk brings people closer to the places where it’s important for them to be in by taking the money burden from them so that you can just go.

We think a life closer to the people and things that matter to you in different places is a better life. And at Happy Scribe, we care that everyone is proficient in Work and in Life.



Knowledge Systems

It seems that any way to learn and synthesise knowledge from the external world falls into one of three categories.

  1. Scientific Method — A body of hypothesis with varying levels of certainty. You can only falsify hypothesis, but never prove them to be true. We’re never right, we can only be sure we’re wrong.

  2. Intuition — The machine learning running on our heads works very well to understand some things like face expressions. Although we can’t understand how we arrived to those conclusions.

  3. Dogma — [X] is true because [authority] says so.

Knowledge is then a body of hypothesis, each of them coming from one of these sources. It’s really important to know when we’re using one source, or another one. And what seems to be unintuitive is that you should try to use the Scientific Method as much as possible, and apply it to all areas of life. Not just when doing science.