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Serious Men
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a tiny stained-glass bathroom where one would fit, and two would be in a relationship.
Beautiful description of a bathroom in a Mumbai chawl
“Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle”
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“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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“...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
“The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything”
― Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
― Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Historians imposed false order upon random events, too, probably without even realizing what they were doing. Amos had a phrase for this. “Creeping determinism,” he called it—and jotted in his notes one of its many costs: “He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
― The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Gaurav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gaurav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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