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Samuel Engelen

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Samuel was born and raised in the small town of Lanaken, Belgium. At 18 he left to study filmmaking in Brussels, specializing in documentary.

After a long-lasting love-hate relationship with his craft and a string of ridiculously incoherent sales jobs he left his homeland for an adventure in Thailand. He started writing down travel stories and rekindled his love for words. After spending two years abroad, starting a clothing business and having a son, he moved to the other side of the world.

He currently lives in San Antonio, Texas with his girlfriend E and his son Noah. When he's not writing stories or articles for his blog, he's exploring the world with his family, producing music or meditating.

Or daydreaming about the motorcycle he will bu ...more

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Dilemma

Daniel Miller — sometimes called Dan by friends, but not more often than Daniel, so it never made sense to him to tell people to call him Dan — had never expected his last words to be “Well how about this?” He had specifically not expected to speak his last words into a hands-free Bluetooth […]

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Average rating: 3.57 · 7 ratings · 2 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Advice to My 18-Year-Old Self by Colin Wright (Goodreads Author), Meg Wolfe (Goodreads Author), Chase Night (Goodreads Author) 3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vigilante Day 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari

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Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are

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“I can kill a bad guy, but I can't save anyone. I'm not a hero. All I am is a killer. A dead killer who shit his pants.”
― Samuel Engelen, Vigilante Day

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