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Everyone knew that, and not many stopped to think that anything that “everyone knew” deserved close examination.
“We all built up a lot of bad habits when everything was easy. We forgot how to survive when easy stops.”
― Commune: Book One
― Commune: Book One
“To put it another way: if you don’t eat fat, you’re probably fat.”
― Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex
― Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex
“2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 38 percent checked e-mail at the dinner table, and 69 percent can’t go to bed without checking their in-box. 19”
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
― Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“I am old now, or at least, I am no longer young, and everything I see reminds me of something else I’ve seen, such that I see nothing for the first time.”
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
― Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“In an industry where usage is a function of purchase rather than a real desire for the item, technology providers will obviously optimize for the purchasing process. But in reality, that is no longer true today, and hasn’t been true for years. As with IM or the iPhone, technology is increasingly being driven by bottom-up, rather than top-down, adoption. The world has changed, but only a select few in the technology industry have realized it. As William Gibson might put it, the future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”
― The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
― The New Kingmakers: How Developers Conquered the World
Shawn’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shawn’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
409 books
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107 friends
240 books
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47 friends
598 books
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904 friends
1,150 books
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2,105 books
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20 friends
540 books
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288 friends
179 books
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20 friends
682 books
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101 friends
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