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@sambrodey The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell, 1984

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"The truth is that, after a certain measure of tangible material success or reward has been achieved, the question of increasing it becomes of constantly less importance compared to the other things that can be done in life." (Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong)

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This seems like it might be relevant ? "We do not find much evidence supporting the counter-argument that higher taxes on this population will harm economic growth by eroding high earners’ initiative." (Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age)

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This is also my approach to offices: "Thomas De Quincey wrote in a room until it was so full of papers and books that there was no room for him, at which point he locked it up and got another." (Richard Cohen, How to Write Like Tolstoy)

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And, will we soon join our cousins ? "We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct." (Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics)

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I am beginning to wonder if this describes America “Yonder is a city put up for sale and its days are numbered if it finds a buyer” (37.3)." (John Burrow, A History of Histories)

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The older I get, the truer this seems :-) "There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are." (Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness)

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Also see the twilight zone episode To Serve Man https://t.co/UR6J39GXeF "Oscar Wilde once wrote, “At present machinery competes against man. Under proper conditions machinery will serve man.”" (Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities)

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This is v good and highly recommended on the #FoW #WFH and potential implications for US office and housing markets (hint - lot of heterogeneity) The Newer Geography of Jobs, by @arpitrage https://t.co/6NcFojo6FL

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Thankfully American politics has moved along from this racism and xenophobia "But the rights of Muslims, Jews, and Catholics to be insiders remained a primary fear for their Anti-Federalist opponents." (Denise A. Spellberg, Thomas Jefferson's Qur'An)