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Influence by Robert B. Cialdini The Gunslinger by Stephen King Flow by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Augustus by John Williams The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes On Writing by Stephen King 1984 by George Orwell The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
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The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
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like almost all modern developments, mathematics was hostile to life: “It is inhuman, like every truly diabolic machine, and it kills everyone whose spinal marrow isn’t conditioned to fit the movement of its wheels.”
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