Chad Aaron Hall
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Chad Aaron Hall
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
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If you desperately need a solution and a good one isn’t known or readily available to you, the path of least resistance is willingness to believe anything. Not just try anything, but believe it.
Morgan Housel • How People Think
His uncle Hulan had been the first black man to operate a grinding machine at the plant. Later, Hulan became the first (and last) black foreman. Uncle Hulan had taught Wally that a black man had to work twice as hard to get half as far, and even then, folks would grumble that he’d gotten the job only because of affirmative action.
Farah Stockman • American Made
Do minorities have to work twice as hard to prove themselves because of affirmative action?
This seems to insinuate that if merit was the only deciding factor in employment, then it would never even occur to Wally’s white co-workers that he hadn’t earned hi place.
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)
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By the 1980s, Acker had also developed a rigorous editing method: She said that she rewrote every book eight times (!), each time with a different criteria in mind: “once for sound, once for meaning, once for ‘beauty’, once for structure, once in the mirror for performativity etc.”
Mason Currey • Kathy Acker Was Against Creativity
LLMs understand you when you use your own words and you don’t need special phrases or commands. (Programs required exactitude.)
You can ramble. You can correct yourself.
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
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Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
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