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Information Rules

by Carl Shapiro

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Sep 30, 2021 09:14AM

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Mean Genes: From Sex to Money to Food Taming Our Primal Instincts

by Terry Burnham

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Ted said: " The structure is highly formulaic and predictable. The simplest gateway read to explain evolution. Have little use other than offering some sensationalist dinner trivia. Takes about 10 hours. "

Aug 09, 2021 02:07AM · see review

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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)

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Ted said: " Pinker did a fantastic job offering critiques to the writing guide genre - or, in his words, "to discriminate between the principles that improve the quality of prose and the superstitions, fetishes, shibboleths, and initiation ordeals that have been ...more "

Apr 16, 2021 05:41AM · see review

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“Elite students climb confidently until they reach a level of competition sufficiently intense to beat their dreams out of them. Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“Philosophy is like science and unlike history in that it seeks general truths rather than an account of particular events, either in the near or distant past.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

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“The most valuable businesses of coming decades will be built by entrepreneurs who seek to empower people rather than try to make them obsolete.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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“If your product requires advertising or salespeople to sell it, it’s not good enough: technology is primarily about product development, not distribution.”
― Peter Thiel, Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future

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“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could not have been solved if there had been enough time, but there is never enough. Decisions, choices have to be made in a moment, there is no time to think and weigh the consequences; and, since even tragic heroes are fallible—especially fallible, perhaps—the decisions are wrong. It is easy for us to see what should have been done, but would we have been able to see in time? That is the question that you should always ask in reading any Greek tragedy.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book

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