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Learnings, snippets, and comments.

My  favorites  have shaped my life, to say the least.

nonfiction
Title
Category
Medium
Tags
The Chinese Mentality | Coco
7
7
6m
+2
Crying in H Mart | Michelle Zauner
8
--12m
+4
The Love of My Life | Cheryl Strayed
----31m
+2
Once More to the Lake | E. B. White
8
8
10m
+4
Choosing to Walk | Internet Princess
7
--14m
+2
Fourteen more months in the greatest square mile on earth
9
--4m
+2
AI vs. the Pentagon | Jasmine Sun
6
8
15m
+3
Sarah Paine — Why Japan lost WWII (lecture & interview)
9
7
2h7m
+3
Zugunruhe | Nathan's Notes
9
7
13m
+3
Mao Zedong: A Life (Jonathan Spence)
7
--4h42m
+4
math team (and other horrible things you do to get into stanford) | Benexdict
8
--11m
+2
Poor Charlie's Almanack
----14h
+2
2025 letter | Dan Wang
8
8
58m
+6
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
----11h12m
+3
On Keeping a Notebook | Joan Didion
8
--10m
+1
21 observations from people watching
8
--6m
+2
Against Universal Basic Income - Alexey Guzey
7
--8m
+2
The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too)
7
7
6m
+2
Why we care about whales | Marina Keegan
7
--5m
+1
The Relativity of Wrong by Isaac Asimov
7
--31m
+1
Are wireheads happy? | Scott Alexander
5
5
11m
+2
against narrative | Internet Princess
10
--16m
+4
Resident Evil | Internet Princess
9
--16m
+5
Perceived Age | Surya Dan
8
8
6m
+2
How to Do Philosophy | Paul Graham
6
7
30m
home for the holidays | Internet Princess
10
--19m
+3
Cognitive Hygiene: Why You Need to Make Thinking Hard Again | Westenberg
8
8
6m
+3
Generalizing From One Example | Scott Alexander
5
7
12m
+2
The Parable of the Talents | Scott Alexander
7
5
32m
+4
Burdens | Scott Alexander
7
--12m
+3
Be Skeptical | Nick Cammarata
5
--4m
+3
The Gun to Your Head | Nick Cammarata
8
5
--
+3
Everything is Fertile | Nick Cammarata
9
--5m
+4
🌻 tryhard | Jasmine Sun
9
8
13m
+5
Chaos Theory | Tina Mai
9
10
17m
+4
Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success | Scott Alexander
8
--34m
+2
Notes on Puzzles | Nabeel Qureshi
8
5
26m
+2
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