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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers

by Andy Greenberg

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On Confidence

by The School of Life

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All Rise

by Nick Offerman

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Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian

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Optimal stopping tells us when to look and when to leap. The explore/exploit tradeoff tells us how to find the balance between trying new things and enjoying our favorites. Sorting theory tells us how (and whether) to arrange our offices. ...more

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Romain’s Quotes

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: clarity-of-thought, intelligence, iq, truths, wisdom

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“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

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“This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the military ethic … a blind faith in some higher and wiser “authority.” The Pope, The General, The Prime Minister … all the way up to “God.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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“It is therefore imperative that you identify your work as both personally interesting and, at the same time, integrally connected to the well-being of others.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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“Any successful person has to decide what to do in part by deciding what not to do.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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