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Peter Boghossian Uber Tesla Oh, Peter. Regarding shorting, I know of only one way to conclusively dissuade you from engaging in this type of boondoggle. Go try it. Illustration is from “Where are the Customers’ Yachts?”

Tuesday 7 October 1662 At the office all the morning, dined at home with my wife. After dinner with her by coach to see Mr. Moore … Thence by water with Will. Howe to Westminster … thence by coach to my Lord’s, and there I left money for Captain Ferrers to buy me two bands. So

In Quest of the Perfect Book (1926) by William Dana Orcutt “A book is a portion of the eternal mind caught in its progress through the world stamped in an instant and preserved for eternity.” Orcutt wrote this memoir as an ode to the printed book. If you're a "type"

Wednesday 8 October 1662 Up and by water to my Lord Sandwich’s, and was with him a good while in his chamber, and among other things to my extraordinary joy, he did tell me how much I was beholding to the Duke of York, who did yesterday of his own accord tell him that he did

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Buitengebieden Happy Friday

Friday 10 October 1662 Up, and between eight and nine mounted again; but my feet so swelled with yesterday’s pain, that I could not get on my boots, which vexed me to the blood, but was forced to pay 4s. for a pair of old shoes of my landlord’s, and so rid in shoes to Cambridge;

Alex & Books 📚 Also, read old books that recommend even older books. “WHAT is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction- to the great and good men of all past times. Books, it is true, are silent as you see them on their shelves; but, silent as they are, when I enter

Saturday 11 October 1662 Up betimes, and after a little breakfast, and a very poor one, like our supper, and such as I cannot feed on, because of my she-cozen Claxton’s gouty hands;* and after Roger had carried me up and down his house and orchards, to show me them, I mounted,

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As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S. (1940) by Hans Zinsser “I have been like most other people, both a hero and a coward; an idealist and a humbug; a Galahad and a sensualist. Virtue: and the Devil have been constantly rolling over each other within me. ‘Tras la Cruz esta

Reads with Ravi Many, but here are two I’d bet you’ll like, Ravi.

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‎‏ٰ Agreed, but don’t forget to think about what you have read. “It is good to read, mark, learn; but it is better to inwardly digest. It is good to read, better to think — better to think one hour than to read ten hours without thinking. Thinking is to reading what rain and sunshine

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 I’d start by reviewing “how to win friends,” and this one.

Monday 13 October 1662 Up to Hinchingbroke, and there with Mr. Sheply did look all over the house, and I do, I confess, like well of the alteracions, and do like the staircase … Thence with Sheply to Huntingdon to the Crown, and there did sit and talk, and eat a breakfast of

Goodreads Animal Farm (1946): George Orwell “For once Benjamin consented to break his rule, and he read to her what was written on the wall. There was nothing there now except a single Commandment. It ran: All Animals Are Equal But Some Animals Are More Equal

Wednesday 15 October 1662 My mind, though out of trouble, yet intent upon my journey home, being desirous to know how all my matters go there, I could hardly sleep, but waked very early; and, when it was time, did call up Will, and we rose, and musique (with a bandore for the