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A batch of the best highlights from what Rasul's read, .
Here’s an example. I read for ~1 hour every morning, and read more in the evenings, in transit, on the weekend, etc. On the one hand, that’s leisure time. But on the other, it’s productive, since most of the time I’m reading a book for Made You Think, and at the very least I’m going to publish my notes on it.
How to Be Really, Really, Ridiculously Productive
Nat Eliason
You’re never going to get rich renting out your time.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson
As soon as it appeared, Prussian Blue caused a sensation in European art. Thanks to its lower price, in just a few years it had all but replaced the colour that painters had used since the Renaissance to depict the robes of the angels and the Virgin’s mantle—ultramarine, the finest and costliest of all blue pigments, which was obtained by grinding lapis lazuli brought up from caves in Afghanistan’s Kochka river valley.
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut
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