Four short links – March 19, 2018

Selfish altruism, "performance management", all sales decks are awful, and the opioid epidemic.

1. A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place (Kottke.org) — This has always been my raison d'être. See also: why resource utilization isn't zero-sum.
   
2. A Performance Question (Rands in Repose) — Canonical manual for dealing with direct report performance.
   
3. The Greatest Sales Deck I’ve Ever Seen (The Mission) — Structure your deck into a narrative arc.
   
4. Andrew Sullivan on the Opioid Epidemic in America (NY Mag) — One of the hardest challenges for our generation.