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Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor at the time, seemed to forgive them out of the kindness of his heart and returned the conquered forts and prisoners.
Kindness and Aurangzeb don't quite go together, hard to believe this.
“...they sell dollar bills for seventy-five cents and take credit for how fast they’re growing.”
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
“People’s emotional response to extremely long odds led them to reverse their usual taste for risk, and to become risk seeking when pursuing a long-shot gain and risk avoiding when faced with the extremely remote possibility of loss. (Which is why they bought both lottery tickets and insurance.)”
― The Undoing Project
― The Undoing Project
“Real wages (adjusted for inflation) have been flat or down for decades. Millennials earn 20 percent less than their parents did at the same stage of their lives, according to a 2017 study by Young Invincibles, an advocacy group.”
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
“There was a reason for this: To acknowledge uncertainty was to admit the possibility of error. The entire profession had arranged itself as if to confirm the wisdom of its decisions.”
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“Countless studies show that these nightmarish hellholes called “open offices” destroy productivity and make people miserable. Yet companies keep inflicting them on us, coyly pretending that the goal is to “foster collaboration,” when really it is to squeeze pennies out of overhead by packing more people into fewer square feet of floor space.”
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
― Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
Gaurav’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Gaurav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
564 books
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149 friends
53 books
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192 friends
42 books
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28 friends
483 books
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45 friends
35 books
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98 friends
87 books
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15 friends
23 books
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58 friends
31 books
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36 friends
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