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We are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.
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16 August 2021
20 July 2021
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Rather: NSO’s genius is that they’ve done something that attackers were never incentivized to do in this past: democratize access to exploit technology.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
19 June 2021
8 January 2021
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Americana: A 400-Year History of American CapitalismTheir words
Americana traces the history of American-style Capitalism, reminding us the political economy is far more complex than the simple labels we tend to use. Reality is far messier, filled with externalities, complications and comprises then is predicted by academic theories.
28 October 2020
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Permanent RecordTheir words
If you care about privacy, or want to understand what the NSA and CIA really do to monitor Americans, this book is an important read. It explains from beginning to end how Snowden became the privacy hero he is today, why he decided to leak the information, and how he did it. It's an interesting and important read, but also probably 100 pages too long.
4 October 2020
3 September 2020
24 June 2020
15 June 2020
From one piece Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Efforts 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ending systemic racism in the United States requires a large-scale anti-racist movement.Their words
It will take a monumental anti-racist movement to change the underlying conditions that allow racism in the United States to flourish.
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These are just three of the names on the list of thousands of Black men and women who lost their lives to the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of this country.
4 June 2020
From one piece Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.Their words
when plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work
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As a Renaissance historian, I feel it’s my job to shoulder the other half of the load by talking about what the Renaissance was like, confirming that our Medievalists are right, it wasn’t a better time to live than the Middle Ages
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The plague did not pass through in 1348 and leave: it stayed endemic in Europe for nearly four centuries afterwards.Their words
in school they talk as if the plague swept through in 1348 then went away, but the bubonic plague did not go away, it remained endemic, like influenza or chickenpox today, a fact of life.
6 February 2020
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Dreams of El DoradoTheir words
My wife Amanda is the real reader in our house, and last month she came home from the library with Dreams of El Dorado: A history of the American West, by H. W. Brands. I moved quickly through its 480 pages (with an occasional photo), and thought it was one of my more enjoyable recent reads.
1 January 2020
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The skills US workers learned in the process of becoming an industrial giant helped set the US up for technological leadership over the rest of the century.
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Today, Chinese workers produce most of the world’s goods, which means that they engage more than anyone else in the technological learning process.
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In fact, I suspect that Chinese firms should be considered underperformers as a whole.
25 December 2019
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LabyrinthsTheir words
I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.
4 December 2019
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American by DayTheir words
American by Day is engagingly written. Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose.
14 August 2019
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Mass shootings are a relatively small share of American gun deaths compared to other causes.Their words
Mass shootings are a relatively small phenomenon even by the standard of American gun deaths.
26 July 2019
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Human error is blamed for over 90 percent of industrial and automobile accidents. It is the leading cause of aviation accidents, and medical error is reported to be the third-largest cause of death in the entire United States. Horrifying? Yes, but why do we label it “human error”? It is design error.
1 June 2019
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Life and FateTheir words
These were the notebooks that we worked on in Moscow and one realised that here was most of the raw material for Life and Fate which I think is probably the most important work of fiction about World War II.
28 May 2019
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The Silk Roads: A New History of the WorldTheir words
Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: The trade routes which connected the East and the West also led to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. In the midst of our budding trade war, perhaps some history on trade between China and the world might shed some light on current affairs.
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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal WestTheir words
David McCullough, The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West: Ever since I read The Wright Brothers” (on an earlier summer reading list of ours — and it was fantastic) I have been a fan of the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough writes about. This tale of how the American Northwest Territory was settled looks intriguing.
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Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and LifeTheir words
Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.
20 May 2019
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A Gentleman in MoscowTheir words
A Gentleman in Moscow is an amazing story because it manages to be a little bit of everything.
30 June 2018
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Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best WinesTheir words
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
1 January 2018
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationTheir words
So the author, Neal Gabler, who has written the best biography on Walt Disney. And it’s a phenomenal book.
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Age of AmbitionTheir words
If you don’t really understand or know a lot about China today, this is one perspective. Good book.
29 November 2017
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Food in Chinese CultureTheir words
It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.
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Classic Food of ChinaTheir words
Classic Food of China was really her great work, though. I think it was the last book she produced before she died, some years ago. It's one of the few really well-researched historical and cultural Chinese cookery books.
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China to ChinatownTheir words
He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.
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The Food of ChinaTheir words
It offers a good counterpart to the KC Chang. It's very well researched and comprehensive, covering all aspects of Chinese cooking – ingredients, cooking techniques, history, agricultural system and so on.
19 November 2017
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The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.
18 September 2017
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The AlexiadTheir words
There are several jewels of medieval Greek literature but Anna Komnene's is probably the brightest. She was the daughter of one of the emperors—she was porphyrogenita—and it is the first narrative history written by a woman in any European language. It's a text that is incredibly florid, very beautiful, and extremely interesting.
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The Cherry OrchardTheir words
So, as a kind of period piece that captures Russia in the late 19th, early 20th century, it's the most poignant text I've ever read.
1 March 2017
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Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthTheir words
Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.
10 January 2017
From one piece The Real Reason Your City Has No Money 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in.
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This thinking is how you end up with two dollars of public infrastructure for every one dollar of private investment.
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All this infrastructure is a bad investment. America needs a different model of growth and development.
5 December 2016
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The Myth of the Strong LeaderTheir words
But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.
1 August 2016
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