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The Guns of August

by Barbara W. Tuchman

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Apr 11, 2026 09:32PM

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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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Gnomon by Nick Harkaway

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System exists for the people, not the other way around, and in the end it is the people who are empowered—and required—by the machine to take any and all of the hard decisions that arise.

“To quote one Valley sage, if your idea is any good, it won’t get stolen, you’ll have to jam it down people’s throats instead.”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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“You make what you measure, so measure carefully.”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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“Live with it long enough, and the unthinkable becomes normal.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one’s taste exceeds one’s abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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“To paraphrase the very quotable Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, in the future there will be two types of jobs: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do. Wall”
― Antonio Garcia Martinez, Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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