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At Not Boring... IT'S TI...

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Despite his middling college grades, though, he did get in—because he acted like Jeff Skilling. An interview at Houston’s Hyatt Hotel with the dean, who was meeting candidates about whom the school was on the fence, was going nowhere fast. Then the dean asked, “Skilling, are you smart?” “I’m fucking smart,” he replied.

The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

Historian Dan Carlin writes in his book The End is Always Near: Nothing separates us from human beings in earlier eras than how much less disease affects us. If we moderns lived for one year with the sort of death rates our pre–industrial age ancestors perpetually lived with, we’d be in societal shock.

The Big Lessons From History

collaborativefund.com

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