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You are not so smart / You can beat your brain
Priming you are unaware of the co...,
You run out of time to get things...,
If you look to the downtrodden an...
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Carl Sagan
Look again at that dot thats here...
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Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Homo sapiens wise man long prefer...,
3 the imagined order is inter sub...,
Over 1500 years christians have s...
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Homo Deus - Yuval Noah Harari
The new human agendawe now know w...,
The bad news is that pleasant sen...,
Homo sapiens is not going to be e...
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How to find fulfilling work - Roman Krznaric
1 the age of fulfilmentwork somet...,
One effect of having so many opti...,
Like the ancient romans we still ...
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Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday
The comedian bill hicks said the ...,
2 to be or to do ego aids in the ...,
Be lesser do more you can develop...
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James Clear
10 happier by dan harrismost impr...,
Its easy to fall into a default c...,
One of the most pervasive narrati...
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Facebook
Facebookjust because your privacy...
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The Shock Doctrine
The shock doctrine argues that ne...,
This book is a challenge to the c...
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Selfie - Will Storr
Themesdying self suicide perfecti...,
Every self is different but there...,
We wanted to get along with other...
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Irresistible - Adam Alter
Never get high on your own supply...,
The addict in all of usfew us sol...,
Substances and addictive experien...
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Quiet - Susan Cain
Part one the extrovert idealwe li...,
At the onset of the culture of pe...,
Introverts prefer to work indepen...
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Simon Sinek
Millennials born from 1994 are ac...,
An entire generation now has acce...,
Everything you want you can have ...
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When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
In the silences between his words...
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Nudge - Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Small and often insignificant thi...
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Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
Part one this thing called sleepr...,
Your suprachiastic nucleus commun...,
The consumption of caffeine repre...
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Genome - Matt Ridley
Prefacethe human genome the compl...,
We are to a 98 approximation chim...
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Instant Expert - Artificial Intelligence 2nd December 2017
Machines that think douglas heave...,
A machine learns through neural n...,
The future of ai toby walshwe mus...
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The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
The reach of explanationstransmut...
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Bitcoin
Globaldecentralised no central ba...
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Creating Freedom - Raoul Martinez
Introduction and prefacea discuss...,
Here s the key point yes we all m...,
For billions of people where they...
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Straw Dogs - John Gray
Pithy of language or style terse ...
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12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson
Introductionwithout rules we quic...,
Rule 2 treat yourself like someon...,
Rule 5 do not let your children d...
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The Road to Character - David Brooks
A virtue salient culture would pr...
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The Paradox of Choice - Barry Schwartz
Introductionthe culture of abunda...,
Several studies have demonstrated...,
People will tend to pay more to r...
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Doubt - Jennifer Hecht
Introductionamorality having no m...,
A libertine is one devoid of most...,
N the heyday of the ancient greek...
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Affluenza - Oliver James
Introductionour drive for money a...,
Part one the virusfor some it doe...,
A tendency towards upward social ...
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Deep Work - Cal Newport
Introductiondeep work professiona...,
Open plan offices might create mo...,
In a post enlightenment world we ...
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Notes on a nervous planet - Matt Haig
Anxiety is the dizziness of freed...,
Regrets of the dying bronnie ware...,
There is a permanent gap between ...
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Not Working - Josh Cohen
Introductionwe live in a culture ...,
The ego ideal is the residue in u...
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The Age of Absurdity - Michael Foley
The absurdity of happinessthere i...,
The righteousness of entitlementa...,
Albert ellis defined belief in th...
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How to Be Right - James O'Brien
Introductiondouble standardsarden...,
Hate dissemination industrypreval...,
Nanny states and classic liberals...
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born
Hegemony leadership or dominance ...,
However its principal beneficiari...
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Democracy and Its Crisis - AC Grayling
Prefacewe have two great rights a...,
The history of the dilemma in the...,
After feudalism a new justificati...
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Digital Minimalism - Cal Newport
Introductioni used to be a human ...,
Unpredictability releases more do...,
Many people have come to accept a...
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The Twittering Machine - Richard Seymour
Introductionlike drug addicts we ...,
For those who are curating a self...,
Affection and romantic excitement...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman
Introductionpostman distinguishes...,
To disdain rhetorical rules to sp...,
Almost all of the characteristics...
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The Intelligence Trap - David Robson
Introductioni once believed that ...,
Low blood sugar will cause an acc...,
The latest neuroscience shows tha...
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