Patrick Berzai

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The Pale King

by David Foster Wallace

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Jul 20, 2022 02:38AM

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CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest

by Carolyn Dewar

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Oct 10, 2022 06:11PM

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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy

by Wolfram Eilenberger

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“The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

tags: economy, power, production, reality, society, wants

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“Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: happiness, happy-life, hope, inspirational, life, love

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“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”
― W. Edwards Deming

tags: data

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“it is dangerous to unmask images, since they dissimulate the fact that there is nothing behind them).”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

tags: imagery, reality, simulation, unmasking

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“Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a common mistake and a costly mistake in advertising”
― Claude C. Hopkins, Scientific Advertising

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