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Personal Invitations and “Doing Things That Don't Scale” There's great power in a personal invitation. When you personally invite someone to your community, it lets the person know that they were personally considered and approved. It makes them feel special and creates an understanding of intimacy and quality.
The Business of Belonging
David Spinks
“The major point of shadow theory,” Amos wrote to himself, “is that the context of alternatives or the possibility set determines our expectations, our interpretations, our recollection and our attribution of reality, as well as the affective states which it induces.” Toward the end of his thinking on the subject, he summed up a lot in a single sentence: “Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.”
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
country which was essentially a collection of racial, religious, cultural, linguistic and geographical minorities, most of whom hated each other and many of whom looked to the throne for protection. By contrast, the Shi’ite fundamentalists of Qum and Meshed spoke only for a section of the Muslims, and their leader, the Ayatollah Khomeini, was much hated as well as loved and feared. The Shah was not overthrown because he was pro-West, or a capitalist, or corrupt, or cruel–most Middle Eastern rulers were cruel and by their standards he was a liberal–and least of all because he was king. The truth is he destroyed himself by succumbing to the fatal temptation of modern times: the lure of social engineering. He fell because he tried to be a Persian Stalin.
Modern Times
Paul Johnson
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