From the Swedish plocka upp (pick up), plogging is the simple combo of picking up litter while out jogging. Litter in our environment is the responsibility of all of us and I’m still surprised by how much impact a small effort can make to tidy a place up. Plogging gives the multiple gratification of making your local area nicer and helping out Nature, while getting a decent workout and some fresh air to boot.

Maybe combine it with these other jogging sketchplanations: fartlek, London running kit, clingfilm your keys, run further, or, heck, swimrun for the adventurous.

Plogging

If you took all the taxes a country pays each year on one hand, and all the money that people earn on the other, tax freedom day represents the day after which the country’s taxes would be paid by its citizens and the remaining earnings free to spend as they wish. It’s a national average as each individual’s tax freedom day would be different, though in principle you can calculate your own.

Given taxes vary between countries, each country has a different tax freedom day — though it’s not easy to compare as calculations tend to differ. In the US it’s calculated by the Tax Foundation.

Tax freedom day

What makes you trust someone in a professional context? I liked this simple equation by Charles Green which makes it a combination of how credible, reliable, and how intimate — or how safe you feel with that person — divided by the self-orientation of the person — are they focused on their interests, or simply paying more attention to themselves vs being genuinely interested in you and your success. Depending on how you scored this abstract model I guess that would mean that trust is either undermined by someone focusing on their own interests, or strengthened the more they are focused on yours.

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The trust equation