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Random stuff about myself, in no particular order.

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Countdown to Zero Day

The Year of the Flood

The Fire Next Time

“I do not mean to be sentimental about suffering—enough is certainly as good as a feast—but people who cannot suffer can never grow up, can never discover who they are.”

Excerpt From The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

Tyll

“There, however, the boy has never been. He has never been elsewhere. And although several people who have been elsewhere before have told him that it’s exactly the same there as here, he can’t stop wondering where you would end up if you just kept going on and on, not merely to the next village, but farther and farther still.”

Excerpt From Tyll, Daniel Kehlmann

A Promised Land

“There’s only one thing you can count on, Mr. President,” he said. “On any given moment in any given day, somebody somewhere is screwing up.”

Excerpt From A Promised Land, Barack Obama

The Way of Kings

“But weakness can imitate strength if bound properly, just as cowardice can imitate heroism if given nowhere to flee.”

Excerpt From The Way of Kings, Brandon Sanderson

Spelunky

“I’m obsessed with finishing as a skill. Over the years, I’ve realized that so many of the good things that have come my way are because I was able to finish what I started.”

Excerpt From Spelunky, Derek Yu