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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)

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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

by Jonathan Haidt

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“The key test for an acronym is to ask whether it helps or hurts communication.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

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“I just look at it as ‘What grades do I need to get where I want to go?”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future

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“If you told him that you made a particular choice because ‘it was the standard way things had always been done,’ he’d kick you out of a meeting fast.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

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“The history of every major galactic civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognisable phases, those of Survival, Enquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.

For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question How can we eat?, the second by the question Why do we eat?, and the third but the question Where shall we have lunch?”
― Douglas Adams

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“In the years that followed, the goal went from taking huge risks to create new industries and grand new ideas, to chasing easier money by entertaining consumers and pumping out simple apps and advertisements. “The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,” Jeff Hammerbacher, an early Facebook engineer, told me. “That sucks.” Silicon Valley began to look an awful lot like Hollywood.”
― Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Inventing the Future

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