American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  Let's say that if the Buddha had been born in the Midwest of the US he would have written Brim's book. Brim has a Midwesterner's work ethic, and Americans moralise work quite a lot...so Brim says don't drop out of the game, play it, but play it so you don't get trapped, play it wisely, so that you get to enjoy the fruits of your labour.

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Management writer; co-author of In Search of Excellence (1982) and author of The Excellence Dividend.

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  Retail Superstars: Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores in America

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  Retail Superstars: Inside the 25 Best Independent Stores in America/George Whalin

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Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. Publishes nothing under his own name — his arguments reach people through books, essays in other outlets, and interviews.

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  Freedom and democracy are not compatible -- a conclusion reached after two decades of changing his mind about how freedom is achieved.

  On changing their mind

  But I must confess that over the last two decades, I have changed radically on the question of how to achieve these goals. Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters. Publishes nothing under his own name — his arguments reach people through books, essays in other outlets, and interviews.

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  The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.

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  In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”

  The Education of a Libertariancato-unbound.org

Physicist and information theorist at Cambridge; wrote Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air and Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, and was the UK's chief scientific adviser on energy from 2009 to 2014. Died in 2016.

From one piece Sustainable Energy — without the hot air 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Free markets alone cannot solve environmental and energy problems; legislation, regulation, and taxation are also necessary.

  energy

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  So, while markets may play a role, it’s silly to say “let the market handle it all.” Surely we need to talk about legislation, regulations, and taxes.

  Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk

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  Europe cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both.

  solarenergyEurope

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  Just like Britain, Europe can’t live on its own renewables. So if the aim is to get off fossil fuels, Europe needs nuclear power, or solar power in other people’s deserts (as discussed on p179), or both.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Keeping a foreign accent is a choice about who you are, not a limit on what you can hear or say.

  America

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  This guy may be in France, but obviously holds strongly to his identity as an American, so he’ll say the words correctly, but keep the American twang that he knows as his voice.

  Are foreign accents a reflection of identity?sive.rs