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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina

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The brain appears to be designed to (1) solve problems (2) related to surviving (3) in an unstable outdoor environment, and (4) to do so in nearly constant motion.

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Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

by Federico Biancuzzi

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“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?”
― Terry Orlick, In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

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“We invented a way of solving problems by simply making it the other guy’s problem. It’s called specialization of labor, and it’s as simple as that. That’s how the humans differ from chimpanzees: they never invented that.”
― Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

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“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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