Chad Aaron Hall
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Edgewalker
Chad Aaron Hall
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use the environment itself to remind you of what needs to be done.
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time by Steven Van Zandt, Joe Levy, Rolling Stone Magazine
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To be a sovereign individual now-a-days usually requires being shameless, for shame is the main weapon of the mob. But a funny side effect is that you cannot satirize the shameless. The shameless are immune to it. I’m rubber, you’re glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. Our culture is being filled up with exaggerated caricatures... See more
The universe suddenly hates satire
Then the news broke that Trump had carried Florida. The voices of CNN reverberated from too many television screens, monstrous, distorted, unintelligible. Everything liberal America had told itself about itself and the rest of the country seemed inside out and upside down.
Farah Stockman • American Made
The left is blind to what drives populism on the right.
These same words could easily describe the left’s reaction to Trump’s 2024 win, showing that 8 years following 2016, they learned nothing. They were just as surprised and blindsided by his win as they were the first time.
Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill
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Based on what the researchers knew about such structures, they estimated the huge number of these mysterious constructions that are likely hidden somewhere beneath still unsearched forest.
10,000 Pre-Columbian Structures Could Be Hidden beneath Amazon Rain Forest
Elon Musk devoured whole libraries on subjects he wanted to master, reading every available book and technical manual until he understood the field from first principles.
Founders || #399 How Elon Works
Learning and
Incidentally, this is one of several reasons that wealth taxes don’t tend to raise a lot of money. When you start taxing financial assets, those assets become less valuable to investors, because owning those assets now means getting taxed. So the market price of the assets drops, which reduces the amount of tax revenue from the wealth tax.