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Law 42: Strike the Shepherd and the Sheep will Scatter A single individual can be the cause of trouble, this person is the stirrer, the arrogant subordinate, or the poisoner of goodwill. Strike at him to put an end…
Part One: The Adventure of the Hero King Muchukunda* Chapter 3: Return 1. Refusal of the Return After the hero completes his quest, he must still return with his life-changing boon.
Chapter 3: Liberty Big Brother is Watching You* Big Data is watching you Harari’s main thesis in [Sapiens](https://www.amazon.
Rational about Rationality You don’t need science to survive, but you need to survive to do science. The best definition of rationality: actions that increase the chances of survival.
Chapter 4: The Peekaboo World Newspapers came to depend not on the quality or usefulness of their news, but on how much and at what speed they provided it. James Bennett of the New York Herald boasted that his paper…
Malcolm X* Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) learned from his experience on the streets, that the only way to get what you want in life, was to be realistic.
Acts of Meaning* is a book about the importance of symbols. Jerome Bruner believes that culture is transmitted through the use of symbols. A symbol is something that stands for something else. A flag is a symbol of a…
ALL OF MAN’S TROUBLES COME FROM NOT KNOWING HOW TO SIT STILL, ALONE IN A ROOM.—Blaise Pascal Before music, the only way Curtis Jackson thought he could make money was to sell drugs, since all the people he knew that…
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us –Oliver Wendell Holme Start with an understanding of your destination. To know where…
Deterrence Strategies When opponents are unwilling to fight with you, it is because they think it is contrary to their interests, or because you have misled them into thinking so.Sun Tzu Everyone is vulnerable. but…
One way of understanding how something works is to divide it into its component parts, and then to study the parts individually. This is the linear way of understanding. But there is a second way, and this is the…
A prevalent idea today is that we live in a post-truth world. That fake news and political figures like Trump and Putin have driven the world away from their ability to recognize truth from fiction. In this chapter,…
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