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Now I'm thinking Chekhov has a type for absent-minded mother figures and wealthy abandoned children

Lord Baelish, what you suggest is treason.”
“Only if we lose.”
“You forget,” Ned told him. “You forget Jon Arryn. You forget Jory Cassel. And you forget this.” He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.

"In a psychologist’s practice, common themes rise and wane across a cohort of clients. Right now, I see a surge of concern about speed: getting ahead and staying ahead. More clients use similar metaphors about “running to stand still” or feeling “caught on a track.” Invariably, their first response is to speed up and run faster."

احساس می‌کنم بعیده که حتی در سال 2024 هم کتابی به این قدرت و شفافیت در مورد «زن نویسنده» داشته باشیم. چقدر قویه. چقدر قویه.

"In the shrunken world, without Nancy, without Bertie, it seemed very sad to be indifferent to one’s own son."

When I noticed this book has roots in the same tricks newsletter I receive from realpython, a naïve part of me thought maybe there wont be much to learn. Im only at page 45, and yet I've already learned a lot!

"By turning peers into informants against one another, this strategy dismantled the reinforcing networks of trust and support that might have mobilized dissent. Collective suspicion weakened the social bonds within American communities, eliminated trust within friendships,and disrupted the infrastructure that would be needed to mount an opposition."

Put 'enemies' instead of 'informants' & it all sounds too familiar.

Well, things got interesting :))
All throughout this Twitter example, I keep thinking how the news of this small startup reached my small community of harry potter fans. Wish we could trace all this now, make a map of how it all spread.

"What you read will help you answer two questions that are at the forefront of what all parents, teachers, voters, businesspeople, policymakers, public-health workers, entrepreneurs, and activists want to know: How does change happen, and what can we do to help?"

I guess I did pick the right book.

So far, I've learned that influencer marketing is mostly not effective, and that social star can even prevent change rather than promote it. But if it's so, then why is influencer marketing still so popular and seen every where?
Hopefully I'll know the answer somewhere along the road.

"Their love wanted to [make her normal], wanted to fix her, and refused to see that she wasn’t broken."

"She’d known girls on diets her entire life. Iron-rich blood had rarely, if ever, been their goal. Most of them had been looking for smaller waists, clearer complexions, and richer boyfriends, spurred on by a deeply ingrained self-loathing that had been manufactured for them before they were old enough to understand the kind of quicksand they were sinking in."