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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .

Many psychologists assert that creating systems that cause feelings of powerlessness is one of the most damaging things we can do to fellow human beings—we deprive other people of their ability to control their own outcomes and even create a culture where people are afraid to do the right thing because of fear of punishment, failure, or jeopardizing their livelihood.

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, and Nicole Forsgren

If you want not just peace and contentment, but power and wealth too, you may forfeit the former in seeking the latter, and will lose your freedom and happiness along the way.

The Manual

Epictetus, Ancient Renewal, Sam Torode

But then, if science is so uncertain, is it credible? How can we trust it, if we know that even the best theories are likely to be found wrong sometimes in the future? I think that the answer to this question is important, because science, and more in general, rational thinking, is today under attack from many sides.

What Is Time? What Is Space?

Carlo Rovelli

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