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She hated the phrase “work-life balance” because it implied that work competes with life. Her work in the lab and her “passion for science,” she says, brought her a “happiness that is as fulfilling as any other passion.”
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
That’s called consequentialism, by the way, it means that whether an act is right or wrong isn’t determined by whether it looks bad, or mean, or anything like that, the only question is how it will turn out in the end—what are the consequences.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Preoccupation with being right means you’re betting, which personalizes the market and is the root of losses due to psychological factors. Concern yourself with whether or not you have done your homework to define a set of conditions under which you will enter and exit the market, and whether or not you carry out that plan.
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul
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