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The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
goodreads.com
This is not a story about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl
from The Economist
Python (2nd Edition): Learn Python in One Day and Learn It Well. Python for Beginners with Hands-on Project. (Learn Coding Fast with Hands-On Project Book 1)
amazon.com
A degree of relaxation is necessary to have good ideas because one doesn't have them so much as receive them—and one cannot receive anything with clenched fists.
Justin Murphy (cath/acc)x.comThese books portray the cyber world as a site of many simultaneous battles, in which attackers, whether criminals or states, often have an advantage over the institutions that are their targets. States and legitimate businesses spend enormous amounts to defend themselves but present a large number of “attack surfaces”. Aggressors need to find just ... See more
What to read to understand cyber-security
“Most of the young men of talent whom I have met in this country give one the impression of being somewhat demented. Why shouldn't they? They are living amidst spiritual gorillas, living with food and drink maniacs, success-mongers, gadget innovators, publicity hounds. God, if I were a young man today, if I were faced with a world such as we have c... See more
Henry Miller • Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill
I’m increasingly convinced, then, that the next big vector for inequality is around this most fundamental of human capabilities. The elites are going to reclaim the ability to chain together more than three thoughts in succession before reaching for a device.
“The thing that happens in midlife is you start to feel the weight of accumulation of what you’ve acquired throughout your life. I don’t mean just physical things, I mean friends, responsibilities, the identities, and the invisible name tags that define who you are in the world. You frankly start to feel overwhelmed by all that accumulat
... See moreChip Conley • Chip Conley: Building Empires, Tackling Cancer, and Surfing the Liminal - The Tim Ferriss Show • Podcast Notes
Breakthrough insights come from living in the future and tinkering directly with what’s new about it—not by having passing ideas about it from a distant vantage point
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
- Lifestyle. This may be the big one. Several clues are starting to emerge that point to parallels between the lifestyles of super agers. Healthy-aging researchers have identified four common habits.
A physically and intellectually active lifestyle.
The willingness or ability to constantly challenge oneself.
An active social life and a wide social netw... See more