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Since 1970, Asia’s per-capita incomes have increased fivefold.4 Even in Africa, the world’s worst-performing continent, incomes have almost doubled. The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century. In some
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“The country is frustratingly conservative and non-progressive socially, at least by American standards. Racism and homophobia are often overt here, and with no consequences. Outside of the center of Ljubljana, I’ve never seen an openly gay couple, and people even do double-takes when they see anyone who is not Caucasian.”
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
“Though the multitude of Plečnik’s architecture is what most foreigners recall after visiting Ljubljana, there is no single iconic view that defines Ljubljana for the visitor.”
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
“The smartest people, and the best writers, are the ones who can make a complicated idea seem simple, not the other way around.”
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
“Slovene essayists like to employ an abstruse lexicon. This idea that sounding complicated makes you sound clever is not universally shared, however. Most American readers would say that anyone who uses exotic words, like “abstruse lexicon” are over-compensating for a lack of content, and that to look up ten-euro words in a thesaurus makes you sound desperate, not clever.”
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
“keeping with our old friend Cicero, here are the three points of comparison that I will discuss in this essay: the preferences for 1) Anglophone outlining of one’s arguments vs. European drifting through arguments more organically; 2) Anglophone clarity vs. European intellectuality; and, 3) Anglophone arguments through specific anecdotes that demonstrate ideas from a practical standpoint vs. European discussion of theories in the abstract.”
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
― Slovenology: Living and Traveling in the World’s Best Country
Wojciech Adamczyk’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Wojciech Adamczyk’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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208 friends
206 books
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55 friends
328 books
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173 books
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8 books
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62 books
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