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We'll be hosting an AMA with @nayafia here in /books next Thursday. Nadia is one of the most interesting thinkers on the internet. Her first book, Working in Public, is a treatsie on democracy masked as an analysis of open-source software. Her recent book, Antimimetics, is about self-censoring ideas. RSVP below.

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who knows which book this is without searching… ✨

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Anyone else reads Jeffrey Deaver?

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one of Canada's most underrated authors

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I'd say it's like 80~90% fixing Roc Camera software / testing and 10~20% reading when it comes to work, and by reading I mean reading whatever the hell I want

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reading “on the spiritual in art” by wassily kandinsky (the father of abstract art) & it’s completely breaking my worldview he speaks about the way abstraction leaves room for open interpretation, and in turn brings us closer to the realm of the immaterial, or “the spiritual”

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https://monoskop.org/images/0/0d/Havelock_Eric_A_Preface_to_Plato.pdf really should be called "preface to plato's republic" but either way one of the best secondary texts on philiosophy i ever read. huge influence on mcluhan. if i were to suggest a place to start with philosophy, it might be this book

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I just sat down, and started reading this and couldn’t stop. Essays: Trust thyself, nonconformist, foolish consistency, a true prince, the divine within, the god within, ethics, the revolution, peace in yourself What a wonderful… I need to read more Emerson. I love the essay format. and I already want to reread Emerson. Sometimes while I’m reading authors I feel like fuck I want to read the same thing again. Or I want to read this again but when I’ve changed. Fuck am I ever going to get this. Fuck I should get this tattooed. That’s who this man is, writing that is powered by unconditional divine love is on a different level - holy mackerel

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“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession.” R.W. Emerson - The Revolution

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love the idea of an "antilibrary" as a daily reminder of how much you don't know "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy. It'd be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones." — Umberto Eco

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Babe wake up, new Dan Wang book just dropped https://x.com/eugenewei/status/1942970992223191117

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