Gaurav Mathur

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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

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

Jaron Lanier
“Social media is biased, not to the Left or the Right, but downward”
Jaron Lanier, Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Edward Snowden
“Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanisms by which predictability is calculated, you come to understand that its science is, in fact, anti-scientific, and fatally misnamed: predictability is actually manipulation. A website that tells you that because you liked this book you might also like books by James Clapper or Michael Hayden isn’t offering an educated guess as much as a mechanism of subtle coercion.”
Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

Hank Green
“What is reality except for the things that people universally experience the same way?”
Hank Green, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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812 books | 175 friends

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470 books | 94 friends

Nilesh ...
1,386 books | 215 friends

Neha
418 books | 126 friends

Felix
233 books | 12 friends

Shagun ...
274 books | 176 friends

Prakhal...
163 books | 134 friends

Marcin ...
2,158 books | 147 friends

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