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Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
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“The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury. What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job.”
― Moneyball
― Moneyball
“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
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“The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
Christoph’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Christoph’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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43 friends
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114 friends
1,633 books
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29 friends
197 books
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144 friends
138 books
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1 book
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109 friends
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