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But for the hackers this label is a problem. If what they’re doing is called science, it makes them feel they ought to be acting scientific. So instead of doing what they really want to do, which is to design beautiful software, hackers in universities and research labs feel they ought to be writing research papers.

"Because they blame it on puberty. The reason kids are so unhappy, adults tell themselves, is that monstrous new chemicals, hormones, are now coursing through their bloodstream and messing up everything.

I’m suspicious of this theory that thirteen-year-old kids are intrinsically messed up. If it’s physiological, it should be universal. Are Mongol nomads all nihilists at thirteen?"

More like 4.9 out of 5.

"The traditional man wants a woman to be subsurvient. But he never falls in love with subsurvient women. He's attracted to independent woman. He's like an exotic bird collector.", she said, "He only wants a woman who's free, because his dream is to put her in a cage."

Trying audiobook for the first time.