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Usman Bashir

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Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers

by Gabriel Weinberg (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: business-and-startups, project-elrond, currently-reading

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Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

by Paul Jarvis (Goodreads Author)

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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: non-fiction, psychology, self-help, currently-reading

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“The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.”
― Glenn Greenwald

tags: authoritarianism, liberty, nsa, privacy, spying, surveillance, surveillance-society

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“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”
― Glenn Greenwald

tags: 2012, terrorism, twitter, war-on-terror

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“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.”
― Tim Burton

tags: tim-burton

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“I kept a picture of me kissing my dad’s corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I’d break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.”
― Doug Stanhope, Digging Up Mother: A Love Story

tags: death-and-dying, demise, gallows-humor

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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

tags: life, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, progress

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