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It’s summer 2015, and you reach into your pocket/purse and find a quarter. (Even non-weirdos have change in 2015.) A stranger walks by and bets you a dollar that it will be heads.
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Two Freedoms Worth Chasing
a person making $25,000 today is materially richer than John D. Rockefeller was in 1910
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Anger and Reality
"It’s a superpower in modern times to be able to get off the ride of anger"
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Taking Responsibility for our Minds
When I was a 20-year-old college student, procrastinating each research paper to the point of inflicting self-harm, I imagined myself at 27 being a mature adult who calmly accomplished the tasks I laid out before me.
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Steve's Jobs (Part III): Why Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company
This is how Jobs wanted it. It’s the idea of tight integration, or, to put it another way, Jobs’ obsession with control that endures long after his lifetime.
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Steve's Jobs II
To Jobs, pleasure was more pleasurable when contrasted with extreme restraint.
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The Scanning Age: Automation and America
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Steve's Jobs (Part I)
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A better way to job search (the post that inspired the book!)
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Quarantine, Morass, and Stress
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McDoubles for our Minds
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Too Much One Way and Not Enough the Other
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