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Bought this book from manning today. However, instead of paying $25.99 for this book alone, I decided to purchase a monthly subscription at $24.99 that would allow me to read all their books online. I also get to keep the PDF and epub of this book. I think this is a good deal.

To more writing and technical blogging!

Came across a book titled "Aphorisms" by FM on this tweet 1

@Askeladam You should read Journal of a Cruise. It's real historical memoir of Master and Commander David Porter.
And as a side note the fictional Master and Commander is based on the British side of this story.

https://www.amazon.com/Journal-Cruise-CLASSICS-NAVAL-LITERATURE/dp/0870213318

@Partisan_O You would like James Belich's "Replenishing the Earth."

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Nothing has increased my programming productivity more than being able to restate hard problems as simple ones. Nobody taught me more about how to do that than the late, great Gerald M. Weinberg. https://t.co/PWXm0MItUv

@zenpundit btw, this is an absolutely phenomenal book and provided a better answer to the common hagiographies of why the USSR fell apart and was based upon 30 years of interviews: https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Soviet-Vladislav-M-Zubok/dp/0300257309

and finally, in the last chapter:

"I regret selling Trader Joe's"

https://t.co/oBmOM99tOA

Drop whatever you are doing, and watch this superb discussion between @sanjeevsanyal and Arnab Goswami!

The Real Story of the Freedom Struggle https://t.co/jbD89vMmzM

Pre-order the book Revolutionaries : The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom: https://t.co/zTuRu18vSH

I end this year with Victor Serge Diaries 1936-47. They were not written for publication, were found by accident in the 1960s, published in French and then recently translated into English. Will write more when I finish the book.
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@varunram Yes, he created something out of nothing, but that is the exception, not the rule. You should read The Big Score on the origins of California as the tech capital and SV is what is is
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@Austen Damodaran is the gold standard text on Wall Street. Took a course from him when I was at GS.

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

When we eliminate effort, we eliminate life’s pleasures.

"The honest competitor understands that while luck affects outcomes, it doesn’t affect effort. So he learns to take his pleasure from the daily grind."

@btbytes

Stalin's liquidation of the kulaks was not entirely motivated by economic or class concerns. He was also driven to eliminate "the natural leaders" of the peasants who might have organized against communist subjugation.

"English manners were imposed on the middle class as a way of domesticating them, along with instilling in them the fear of breaking rules and violating social norms." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in Skin in the Game

RT @razibkhan: The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies is $1.99 on Kindle again! RECOMMEND

The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--and How It Died

pamela sargent's Ruler of the Sky: A Novel of Genghis Khan is excellent. khasr actually comes off as the most sympathetic and underrated character imo

The Indian experience is incomplete without knowing the contribution of Dalit personalities to the making of the Indian state. Time travel with us to know of their inspiring lives and work, and how they have impacted our times. Pre-order:

The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

watched first episode of age of samurai on @RichardHanania rec. SO BASED. but ppl should REALLY read TAIKO

(some era/dramatis personae)

"Therefore it is well not to be too indulgent or charitable with anyone. You may take it as a general rule that you will not lose a friend by refusing him a loan, but that you are very likely to do so by granting it" -Arthur Schopenhauer

The epilogue of my book shows how Wu’s radical transparency and strategic conferencing, besides his antipandemic measures, could serve as critical lessons for present-day Chinese policymakers. To read more, please buy my book here: @stanfordpress (7/7)