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John
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“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
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“A fact is interesting, an idea is important, but only a story, a good argument, a well-crafted narrative is amazing, never to be forgotten.”
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
― The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future
“We need a reliable and simple external structure to think in that compensates for the limitations of our brains.”
― How to Take Smart Notes
― How to Take Smart Notes
“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”
― Physique, philosophie, politique
― Physique, philosophie, politique
“Writing itself makes you realise where there are holes in things. I’m never sure what I think until I see what I write. And so I believe that, even though you’re an optimist, the analysis part of you kicks in when you sit down to construct a story or a paragraph or a sentence. You think, ‘Oh, that can’t be right.’ And you have to go back, and you have to rethink it all.” (Carol Loomis)”
― How to Take Smart Notes
― How to Take Smart Notes
John’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
193 books
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24 friends
469 books
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100 books
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70 friends
331 books
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47 friends
609 books
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70 friends
341 books
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79 friends
193 books
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75 friends
301 books
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119 friends
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