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this is how 99 percent of people select their jobs: pay, work environment, hours. But that’s the point. Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job—not a calling.)
“much of what other people know isn’t worth knowing.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“AIDS began with a spillover from one chimp to one human, in southeastern Cameroon, no later than 1908”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
“In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
“The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
― Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
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