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“Fry was impossible to work with, mentally troubled, locked in himself,” Caldwell wrote. “But let us not forget that he was a prophet, too, and put himself in harm’s way to prevent the future he saw unrolling before him. Not the ideal person, maybe. But certainly the kind that every generation has always had too few of.”
Dara Horn • People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Perfume in the mail, she’d once said to Sam. Sent scent, he’d replied. Britney Spears is no longer working. Idle idol. A Goldman Sachs analyst discovers a cash flow model that predicts the future. Profit prophet.
Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Bobby recognized that Chinese people would have little interest in the libertarian ideas of American Bitcoiners—decades of state-sponsored communism had killed most interest in ideologies.
Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Samm Levine: Judd said, “Scott Sassa said, ‘If you get a ratings share higher than my shoe size, we’ll order more episodes.’ ” And mercifully he was not a tall man.
Judd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
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