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If you enjoy programming, philosophy, math, or any number of geeky topics, you're in the right place. Every day, I'll post a random quote from my extensive collection of Kindle highlights. Quotes do not necessarily reflect my views or opinions. In fact, part of my epistemic process is to consume a wide variety of contradictory material.

10/03/2023

“I dropped out of graduate school because postmodernism was then coming into academia,” Craig explained to me, “and it didn’t seem worthwhile to go through all of the hard work of science and present all the evidence, just to have it dismissed by [someone] saying, ‘Well, that’s just your narrative.’”

— Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger

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09/30/2023

Bureaucracy was invented to maximize control, coordination, and consistency—things that are essential to reliability and efficiency but aren’t the hallmarks of online communities and open innovation projects.

— Jim Whitehurst and Gary Hamel, The Open Organization

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