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Let’s Make a Deal

Jeffrey Zaslow • The Last Lecture

These experiences gave Wences insights into the nature of money that most people in the world learn only from textbooks.

Nathaniel Popper • Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

Because that print-only option was a decoy employing relativity to push us toward the combo deal.

Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense

So says physicist and educator Eric Mazur of Harvard.

Henry L. Roediger III • Make It Stick

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Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel

Why not? Suppose that half of past geniuses were tutored this way, and half weren’t. Even if every single genius who was tutored owed his genius entirely to the tutoring, the tutoring could only explain half of geniuses. That means that after the tutoring stopped, we would expect half as many geniuses. But Hoel is making a stronger claim: that ther... See more

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex) • Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring

Stuart Milner-Barry, one of the Hut 6 cryptanalysts, wrote: “I do not imagine that any war since classical times, if ever, has been fought in which one side read consistently the main military and naval intelligence of the other.”

Simon Singh • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

the Braintrust is benevolent. It wants to help. And it has no selfish agenda.

Amy Wallace • Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

Rimbaud, prêt à l’aborder, se déroba. Il montrait bien là sa timidité, doublure toujours présente de sa révolte et de son goût du scandale.