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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

by Jonathan Haidt

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A Frontline Worker's Manifesto: Lessons Learned in Good Company

by Daniel Oudshoorn

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The End of Work, The Start of Us: How AI Proved Work Was Always Fucked—and What We Can Build Instead

by Nathan Colquhoun (Goodreads Author)

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Autonomous by Annalee Newitz

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She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.

Lyf’s Quotes

“All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”
― Seán O'Casey

tags: destiny, drama, fate, humanity, humankind, humor, life, stage, theater, world

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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions

tags: cheese, poetry

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“I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.”
― Shelley Winters

tags: acting, age, beauty, nudity, theater, youth

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“[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.”
― Vivian Mercier

tags: absurd, critic, godot, irish, theater

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“It happened that a fire broke out backstage in a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning. They shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid the general applause from all the wits who believe that it is a joke.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: apocalypse

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