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Isabel Wilkerson
“Caste is insidious and therefore powerful because it is not hatred, it is not necessarily personal. It is the worn grooves of comforting routines and unthinking expectations, patterns of a social order that have been in place for so long that it looks like the natural order of things.”
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Daniel Coyle
“One misconception about highly successful cultures is that they are happy, lighthearted places. This is mostly not the case. They are energized and engaged, but at their core their members are oriented less around achieving happiness than around solving hard problems together. This task involves many moments of high-candor feedback, uncomfortable truth-telling, when they confront the gap between where the group is, and where it ought to be.”
Daniel Coyle, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Steven Pinker
“As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. For you and I belong to a species with a remarkable ability: we can shape events in each other's brains with exquisite precision.”
Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

George Leonard
“Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.”
George Leonard, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Siddharth Kara
“The harsh realities of cobalt mining in the Congo are an inconvenience to every stakeholder in the chain. No company wants to concede that the rechargeable batteries used to power smartphones, tablets, laptops, and electric vehicles contain cobalt mined by peasants and children in hazardous conditions.”
Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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