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“Human beings were never meant to participate in a worldwide social network comprised of billions of people. We were designed by evolution to be hunter-gatherers, with the mental capacity to interact and socialize with the other members of our tribe—a tribe made up of a few hundred other people at most. Interacting with thousands or even millions of other people on a daily basis was way too much for our ape-descended melons to handle. That was why social media had been gradually driving the entire population of the world insane since it emerged back around the turn of the century.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player Two

“Graham urges you to invest only if you would be comfortable owning a stock even if you had no way of knowing its daily share price.3”
― Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor

“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in,”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It is the lonely hour of the night, one with which he is all too familiar—when the city sleeps but you don’t, and all the regrets of your life rage in your mind with an unbearable intensity.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion