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LT is Currently Reading

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

by Karen Hao

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May 28, 2025 11:45PM

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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

by Fei-Fei Li

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Nov 19, 2023 06:43PM

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Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health

by Leana Wen (Goodreads Author)

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Why is Covid / public health part of a partisan political sphere? People are exploiting misinformation, fear for their political gain. "

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LT’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)

How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers) by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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They say that you, however, are wise in a rather different way, not only in your natural abilities and character, but in your knowledge and desire to learn.

can say this of julian

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LT’s Quotes

“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

tags: books, journey, reading, travel

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“Death's brother, sleep.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

tags: aeneid, death, michelle-harrison, sleep, the-aeneid, unrest, virgil

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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