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You may find this book in the “self-improvement” category, but in a deeper sense it is the opposite of self-improvement. It is about optimizing a system outside yourself, a system not subject to your limitations and constraints, leaving you happily unoptimized and free to roam, to wonder, to wander toward whatever makes you feel alive here and now in each moment.
Building a Second Brain
Tiago Forte
By the Second World War, the territories made up nearly a fifth of the land area of the Greater United States.
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
For this reason, TDM critics say the forecast accuracies—or lack thereof—are almost besides the point, because any project that changes the built environment will alter the way people behave. The question is not whether the predictions of how they will behave are accurate, but what kind of behavior we want to have more of.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
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