I think forcing people to publish is good. I think forcing them to publish 2 blog posts on a private inkhaven blog for the first two weeks would help solve some of your problems. That self selecting aspect would make me actually want to seek out what some of your folks are writing.
As it stands I don't really want to read something someone wrote in a day who isn't sleeping well and is hyperfocused on how they compare to the people around them.
I would argue that traditional moral systems formed through theistic cultures can counterintuitively be more flexible to stress than atheistic moral systems.
I believe this is because of an insistence of codifying ethics.
Some people believe that without the law everyone would kill everyone else. This is both true and false. And is largely not what you think out loud, but what you believe and do: a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The following is largely my own experience but I think given the history of this site is not just coincidence or correlation. (my previous account is monkymind)
The effective altruist movement creates (or inspires) young people with brittle ethical codes who often turn to bitterness to those... (read more)
I think outside of grit and intelligence you also display high openness to experience which has been shown to increase or at least highly correlate with research productivity.
When did we start seeing technologists as wizards vs kings?