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the son of a computer science pioneer. He was a soft-spoken nonconformist, a rebel with a 10x cause:
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
My friend Chad benefited from the kind of disorder that is less and less prevalent thanks to the modern disease of touristification. This is my term for an aspect of modern life that treats humans as washing machines, with simplified mechanical responses—and a detailed user’s manual. It is the systematic removal of uncertainty and randomness from t... See more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
When I go on speaking engagements, I always request to stay in homes rather than hotels, dependent not on the market economy but on the hospitality of the church. I usually say to folks who ask me to speak, “If you can’t find a home for me to stay in, then I won’t be able to make it.” And it is much more beautiful to spend an evening with a family
... See moreShane Claiborne • The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical
the bookstore was inhuman.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Abdicating our responsibility to live our own lives can have dire consequences.