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“Just accept that you’re not a genius. Once I told myself that, I was able to finally write.”
“Yes,
You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.”
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You will rise from the ashes,
But the burning comes first.
For this part,
Darling,
You must be brave.”
―
“Silicon Valley is awash in wooden Montessori toys and shrouded in total screen bans. Parents at work talk about how they don't allow their teens to have mobile phones, which only underscores how well these executives understand the real damage their product inflicts on young minds.”
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
― Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
“An analysis by Gomez-Uribe’s team showed that a class of Facebook power users tended to favor edgier content, and they were more prone to extreme partisanship. They were also, hour to hour, more prolific—they liked, commented, and reshared vastly more content than the average user. These accounts were outliers, but because Facebook recommended content based on aggregate engagement signals, they had an outsized effect on recommendations. If Facebook was a democracy, it was one in which everyone could vote whenever they liked and as frequently as they wished.”
― Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
― Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets
Julia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Julia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
89 books
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129 friends
602 books
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6 friends
452 books
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197 friends
2 books
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18 friends
1 book
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47 friends
262 books
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72 friends
1,829 books
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136 friends
126 books
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53 friends
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Favorite Genres
Book Club, Chick-lit, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Mystery, Non-fiction, Politics, Romance, Suspense, Young-adult, and War
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