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The younger lawyer was named Marcus, he was from Shaker Heights, he had attended Penn, where he had majored in philosophy and lettered in rowing. After a stint working in a rural Mississippi town with Teach for America, he had gone on to Stanford Law School. He had a lovely wife of Korean ancestry and a six-month-old baby and was just days away fro
... See moreNeal Stephenson • Fall; or, Dodge in Hell: A Novel
FOUNDING MATRIMONY
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The capacity to utilize and defend against violence is the crucial variable that alters life at the margin.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything
A free society cannot be maintained without an ethics of rational self-interest. Neither can it be maintained except by men and women who have achieved a healthy level of self-esteem. And a healthy level of self-esteem cannot be maintained without a willingness to assert—and, if necessary, fight for—our right to exist. It is on this point that issu
... See moreNathaniel Branden • Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect
our best defense in chaos is a good offense: