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Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless type. She doesn’t stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books

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Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn’t earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You’ll never read all the good books anyway, don’t waste your time on the bad ones. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020) | Hacker News

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings “The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”*… | (Roughly) Daily

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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama. Drama creates Heavenly displeasure. Heavenly displeasure creates hard times. Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance | Hacker News

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by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable things, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to their current age. Thus, the Lindy effect proposes the longer a period something has survived to exist or be used in the present, the longer its remaining life expectancy. The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions — brandur.org

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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance”*… | (Roughly) Daily

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