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Igor’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Igor’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Igor Shults
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The Anhedonic Adaptation
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2019
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Constellations
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So What Are You?
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity:
"From page to page, the book is consistently interesting, providing clever examples from history of monopoly power gone wrong, culminating in chapter 16, which outlines 5 strategies for countervailing power against such monopolies (especially tech mon"
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Alternate title: "A centrist's argument for not rocking the Big Tech boat." Wu has worked in politics, and it shows. He refuses to call out specific present-day policies, to the detriment of his own arguments. He pretends that the current Big Tech sys ...more |
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“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?"
"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
"Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”
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“Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
― I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
“Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry and you give it to your friend.”
― All But My Life
― All But My Life
