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To keep our culture strong, we wanted to make sure that we only hired people who we would also enjoy hanging out with outside the office. As it turned out, many of the best ideas came about while having drinks at a local bar.
Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
The problem with the European Union is that naive bureaucrats (those fellows who can’t find a coconut on Coconut island) are fooled by the label. They treat Salafism, say, as just a religion—with its houses of “worship”—when in fact it is just an intolerant political system, which promotes (or allows) violence and rejects the institutions of the West—those very institutions that allow them to operate. We saw with the minority rule that the intolerant will run over the tolerant; cancer must be stopped before it becomes metastatic.
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
SORITES PARADOX
If you have a heap of grain, and you remove grains from it one by one, at what point is it no longer a heap? At what moment does a fetus become alive? No clear answers to these questions exist because language is too low-resolution to accurately describe reality.
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