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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Richard Meadows
Goodreads Author
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New Zealand
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December 2015
I Was Wrong About Running
YEAH SAME QUESTION AS OP. The mere existence of running as a 'hobby' has always seemed to me an affront to the dignity of mankind. Its practitioners somehow manage to make it look even worse than it feels: flailing around in their big marshmallow shoes, arms and legs and elbows spilling out in every direction, trailing strings of spit and sweat. You have to assume there's some big payoff for all t
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Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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(This is a joint review of The Passenger and Stella Maris)If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it. —Cormac McCarthy IMAGINE THE TREPIDATION when y ...more |
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“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
“Out in the real world, in which actual human beings live, it’s hard to come up with a more stupid example than 'ditching the daily latte'. Want to get your finances in order? Great! All you have to do is wean yourself off an addictive, stimulatory drug, which you’ve been using all your adult life, will cause withdrawal symptoms and impair your performance when you try to quit, is universally available, woven into the very fabric of social life, is the only addiction that carries no stigma whatsoever, and helped bring about the Enlightenment. Oh, and it’s also really frickin’ delicious.”
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
― Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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