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Brian Kramp Brian Kramp said: " What a heavy, amazing story. Well written and interesting. Not necessarily "must-read."

I was particularly impressed at how driven the Everest climbers must be because they were able to endure hardships that I would give up at. They endure lack of sle
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“We have a startling abundance of the goods that fill a house and a shortage of what’s needed to build a good life.”
Ezra Klein, Abundance

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John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Dan  Wang
“Though the lawyerly society corrected the problems of the past, it has produced two pathologies that weaken the United States today. The first is an elevation of process over outcomes. In American government and society, designing new rules and committees have so often become the substitute for thinking hard about strategy and ends.”
Dan Wang, Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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“And so we have entered a strange era of human history: A preventable, curable infectious disease remains our deadliest. That's the world we are currently choosing.”
John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The prevalence of lawyers in American life is unusual. But their dominance at the top of American politics is startling. “Though they make up less than 1 percent of the population, lawyers currently constitute more than one-third of the House of Representatives and more than half the Senate. Fully half of the last ten presidents were lawyers, as are more than a third of the officials now serving in the states as governor, lieutenant governor, and secretary of state,”
Ezra Klein, Abundance: How We Build a Better Future

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