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Day seven: Freedom by Sebastian Junger Not his strongest work, but not bad. Explicitly, it’s a story of a weird, long hike he took with some friends interspersed with characteristically well researched and written information about, well… freedom. It was most enjoyable for me as the implicit story of his midlife crisis. He was clearly in a weird place emotionally. I suspect he was processing some actual PTSD from the War days and also probably feeling a bit uncomfortable about having achieved such success on such a sensitive topic. You get the feeling he was trying to recreate the feeling of being part of a small, fiercely cohesive, tightly aligned group as a form of therapy. Or at least as a hit of his preferred drug. It’s a relatively weak point in his bibliography and I suggest Tribe instead as a direct comparable. And don’t go digging deep into the minor titles at all until you’ve read the Perfect Storm and War. Three stars by Sebastian Junger standards.
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Smollett
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Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
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Wilson Cusack
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gm You get to ask the Coinbase Smart Wallet team to change/fix one thing in January. What is it?
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Vitalik Buterin
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tired: the empire did nothing wrong inspired: the separatists (prequel trilogy) did nothing wrong
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Day one, review one: The Geek Way It’s well articulated, it’s by an industry-adjacent person, and it’s pro tech. But it’s not going to surprise anyone already steeped in startup culture. It advises a four prong recipe for building a successful company culture: - make data driven decisions - promote agency/ownership - move fast - be super open If you’re looking at that and going “hell yeah” then it’s safe to skip this one. But it’d be a good handbook for teaching newcomers and outsiders. And it’d make a great passive aggressive birthday gift for a cofounder who thinks his “Steve Jobs level product intuition” trumps your “AB testing data” Four stars for its type, a solid 101 on healthy tech company culture
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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