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What was still undecided was which of the two proposals Facebook would pursue. A year from this meeting and in this same conference room, with more or less the same cast assembled, we’d finally decide that question. It would take Facebook
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A year to decide that...after months of preparatory haggling? Yes, this guy should lose his job. Also, why didn’t he have a recommendation, rather than: “here are three options, I don’t think the first one will make money, and I won’t say whether we should try either or both of the other two.” What’s he doing all this time?
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“I've always found people love you best if you can laugh at your own foolish misfortunes and keep mum about everyone else's”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
“The rating agencies were not exceedingly competent”
― STRESS TEST
― STRESS TEST
“But I would be happier if my daughter and her friends were crashing through the glass ceiling instead of the sexual ceiling,' Jong continued. 'Being able to have an orgasm with a man you don't love or having Sex and the City on television, that is not liberation. If you start to think about women as if we're all Carrie on Sex and the City, well, the problem is: You're not going to elect Carrie to the Senate or to run your company. Let's see the Senate fifty percent female; let's see women in decision-making positions--that's power. Sexual freedom can be a smokescreen for how far we haven't come.”
― Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
― Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture
“I always say that the way you write a novel is for the first 83 drafts you pretend that nobody is ever, ever going to read it.”
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“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
― Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
― Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
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