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Max is on page 14 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat

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Max is on page 5 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat

When misfortune visits those who once walked alongside us, we do tend to feel relief, almost as if we believe we have ourselves been spared, and as we come to convince ourselves that they are suffering in our stead, we feel for these wretched creatures. We feel merciful.

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Max is on page 2 of 168 of Madonna in a Fur Coat

And here was the strangest thing: the more my situation worsened, the less I could be sure of surviving from one day to the next, the greater my shame and my reluctance to ask for help. […] The more I needed my friends, the more I longed to run away.

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Max is on page 159 of 353 of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness is recognising when a category is being used in an explanation, and remembering that categories can be misleading. We can’t stop generalisation and we shouldn’t even try. What we should try to do is to avoid generalising incorrectly.

— Apr 07, 2026 09:31AM 1 comment

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Max is starting Madonna in a Fur Coat

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Max is starting Madonna in a Fur Coat

Of all the people I have chanced upon in life, there is no one who has left a greater impression.

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Max is on page 86 of 90 of Foster

I hear the car breaking on the gravel in the lane, the door opening, and then I am doing what I do best. It’s nothing I have to think about. I take off from standing and race down the lane. My heart does not so much feel that it is in my chest as in my hands, and that I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside of me.

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Max is on page 64 of 90 of Foster

’You don’t have to say anything,’ he says. ’Always remember that as a thing you need never do. Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity to say nothing.’

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Max is on page 61 of 90 of Foster

Kinsella takes my hand in his. As soon as he takes it, I realise my father has never once held my hand, and some part of me wants Kinsella to let me go so I won’t have to feel this. It’s a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be. He takes shorter steps so we can walk in time.

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Max is on page 23 of 90 of Foster

I dip the ladle and bring it to my lips. This water is cool and clean as anything I have ever tasted: it tastes of my father leaving, of him never having been there, of having nothing after he was gone.

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Max is on page 21 of 90 of Foster

’Where there’s a secret,’ she says, ’there’s shame and shame is something we can do without.’

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Max is on page 20 of 90 of Foster

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Max is on page 10 of 90 of Foster

I’m unused to sitting still and do not know what to do with my hands. Part of me wants my father to leave me here while another part of me wants him to take me back, to what I know. I am in a spot where I can neither be what I always am nor turn into what I could be.

— Mar 23, 2026 03:54AM Add a comment

Max is on page 678 of 689 of Samlade verk

Han tänkte att de båda ägnat sina yrkesliv åt att genom bilden berätta något som vida överskred bilden själv. Att se utan att döma, att skildra utan att äga, att låta världen framträda med all sin samtidiga simpelhet och skönhet: sådan var deras strävan.

— Mar 21, 2026 09:01AM Add a comment

Max is on page 623 of 689 of Samlade verk

”Du måste nog vänja dig vid tanken på att det är över”, sa Gustav. ”Även om hon återvänder kommer det vara över. Även om hon vore här intill dig kommer hon alltid att vara utom räckhåll. Och det är egentligen ännu värre. När någon är nära och omöjlig på samma gång.”

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Max is on page 134 of 353 of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness is recognising when a lonely number seems impressive (small or large), and remembering that you could get the opposite impression if it were compared with or divided by some other relevant number. To control the size instinct, get things in proportion.

— Mar 18, 2026 11:07AM Add a comment

Max is on page 115 of 353 of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Fear can be useful, but only if it is directed at the right things. The fear instinct is a terrible guide for understanding the world. It makes us give our attention to the unlikely dangers that we are most afraid of, and neglect what is actually most risky.

— Mar 15, 2026 02:07AM Add a comment

Max is on page 98 of 353 of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness is recognising the assumption that a line will just continue straight, and remembering that such lines are rare in reality.
To control the straight line instinct, remember that curves come in different shapes.

Don’t assume straight lines. Many trends do not follow straight lines but are S-bends, slides, humps, or doubling lines.

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Max is on page 74 of 353 of Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Factfulness is recognising when we get negative news, and remembering that information about bad events is much more likely to reach us. When things are getting better we often don’t hear about them. This gives us a systematically too-negative impression of the world around us, which is very stressful. To control the negativity instinct, expect bad news.

— Mar 15, 2026 01:28AM Add a comment

Max is on page 574 of 689 of Samlade verk

Det värsta var egentligen inte att hon ratat honom; han hade blivit ratad förr. Det värsta var att han inte gjort minsta märke i hennes liv medan hon påverkat honom så till den grad att det blev en bok av deras förhållande. Vad som rymdes i en parentes i hennes historia blev för honom en kärleksroman.

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Max is 10% done with Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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Max is on page 554 of 689 of Samlade verk

Han bad henne ta det lugnt, men hon bara log hårt, med stenögon.

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Max is 50% done with Father Forgets

What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding fault, or reprimanding; this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you: it was that I expected too much of you. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

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Max is starting Father Forgets

Listen Son, I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little hand crumpled under your cheek and blonde curls sticky over your wet forehead.

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Max is 85% done with Abundance

Simply put: energy abundance might be the single most important technological bottleneck of our time.

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Max is on page 527 of 689 of Samlade verk

Men en bild, tänkte Rakel, skapas alltid på bekostnad av en annan bild. Målningarnas Cecilia placerade en annan Cecilia utanför ramen. Det fanns en osedd gestalt i mörkret, som uteslöts ur historien och förpassades till de osynligas skuggvärld. Och vem var hon egentligen?

— Jan 31, 2026 12:13AM Add a comment

Max is 50% done with Abundance

For a government to do more, or even for it to do what it is already doing, sometimes it first needs permission to do much less.

Prioritising is the first thing to go.

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Max is 6% done with Abundance

Much that we need for the world we want, we already know how to build. But much that we need for the world we want, still needs to be invented or improved.

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Max is starting Abundance

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Max is on page 501 of 689 of Samlade verk

Om man så bara har skrivit fem rader har man i alla fall något att utgå ifrån. Man får inte bli rädd för pappret. Det är det viktigaste. Inte skrämmas av ovissheten. Man måste utlämna sig och se vart det leder.

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