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Ostracism and Commodus

3 Insights “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.” — Plato “Nearly all men can stand adversity,

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Rhythms and Plagues

3 Insights “Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.” — Naval Ravikant “The three most

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The Cobra Effect

3 Insights “You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” — Thomas Sowell “A system

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House of Medici

3 Insights “Hypothesis: living a diverse life increases happiness because it avoids addiction due to repetitively associating rewards to the same cues.” — Luca Dellanna “Your

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Embrace Discomfort

3 Insights “We must be what we wish our children to be. They will form their characters from ours.” — John S.C. Abbott “Children are not

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The End of an Era

3 Insights “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly: they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.” — Aldous Huxley “An independent

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