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“Matt Levine, a Bloomberg columnist who writes a detailed and witty daily email dissected by Wall Street bankers, had been on vacation when the prospectus went live. The following Monday morning, he wrote in his email that the “We” trademark news was “the news item that caused me to absolutely lose my mind—the item that, if I were a slightly more dedicated financial columnist, would have had me on the next helicopter back to the office.”
― Eliot Brown, The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

“Putin realized that he now bore responsibility for the entire crumbling edifice of a former superpower. He was no longer entitled to seethe at the people who had destroyed Soviet military might and imperial pride: by dint of becoming president, to a great number of his compatriots he had now become one of those people.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

“There is no national consensus on the nature of the events that defined the country, and this very lack of consensus is, arguably, modern Russia’s greatest failing as a nation.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

“It is not possible for the US military to know exactly what it needs for the future. But it is possible to create better incentives that stimulate the development of new capabilities and produce novel solutions to our most pressing military problems.”
― Christian Brose, The Kill Chain: Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare