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We collapse systemic problems into personalized narratives, and when we do, we cloud our understanding of American politics and confuse our theories of repair. We try to fix the system by changing the people who run it, only to find that
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“There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.”
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers—Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.”
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“What's all this fuss I have been making about, thought I to myself—the man's a human being just as I am: he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
― Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“Let me do it. I’m the grown-up. You get to be the child.”
― The War I Finally Won
― The War I Finally Won
Jon’s 2025 Year in Books
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28 friends
711 books
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545 books
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1,038 books
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573 books
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293 books
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183 books
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455 books
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