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Machiko’s ideal-bookshelf shelf

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.

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Machiko’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society by John A. Powell

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For some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God’s universe is made; this is the way it is structured.

Machiko’s Quotes

“Instead of deciding on a class and then figuring out its responsibilities, you are now deciding on a message and figuring out where to send it. This transition from class-based design to message-based design is a turning point in your design career.”
― Sandi Metz

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“In spoken Chinese, everything is gender neutral. There is no she or he. The more I think about this now, the more I like this about the language. Man or woman? Does it matter? A person.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry

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“machine learning is the general field that studies how complex mechanisms can be created without a designer.”
― Leslie Valiant, Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World

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“The paradox of the modern world is this: Not only do we do less, physically, than ever before, but we also almost never do nothing. Our bodies, deprived of large movements, are inundated with subtle-yet-continuous physical stimulation from noise, light, data, etc. This constant stream of input is a two-fold stressor, as not only is the frequency of certain environmentally induced loads extremely high, the types of input we are experiencing are unnatural.”
― Katy Bowman, Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement

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“I’ve managed to stay in a perpetual state of learning only by maintaining what I think of as a posture of ignorant humility. This humility is as mandatory as arrogance… There is only one way to deal with this humiliation: bow you head, let go of the idea that you know anything, and ask politely of this new machine “How do you wish to be operated?” If you accept your ignorance, once you really admit to yourself that everything you know is now useles, the new machine will be good to you and tell you: here is how to operate me.”
― Ellen Ullman, Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

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