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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.

07/30/2023

We thus see that the freshest and most delicious foods are eaten by two groups of people: the relatively poor, who have no choice, and the relatively rich, who spend lots of money trying to re-create the food supply networks that the relatively poor have been working with for centuries.

— Tyler Cowen, An Economist Gets Lunch

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07/28/2023

The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life, in particular, understanding and outmaneuvering objects, animals, plants, and other people.

— Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

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07/27/2023

You’re efficient when you do something with minimum waste. And you’re effective when you’re doing the right something. It’s possible to be one without the other…

— Tom DeMarco, Slack

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