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I don’t have much—just Copilot, my readings, and the viewings of The History of the World: The Great Courses Lecture Series, which now costs nearly a hundred bucks on Prime. Like many seemingly smart people, I absorb facts and archive them—not just by discipline, but in the Cross-Disciplinary Annex of my mind, connecting all those
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Prologue: Never Count your money, while sitting at the table: I imagine the halls of the White House have echoed with the refrain “There must be more money” ever since the days of John Adams. Over time, through the creation of a banking system built on speculation—speculation tenuously tied to real capital (human labor, tangible
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Apparently, a hot flash is like this:You’re one of the silver-suited henchmen from the Drew Barrymore version of Firestarter. They call you in because she’s already taken out the guns, the Humvee, and that unsettling white guy who thinks he’s Native—and now she’s beyond furious. Because… Daddy. Your superiors assure you it’ll be fine as
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I am standing at the platform, bruised and bored. It took a while, but the conductor finally caught up to me, and I was ejected from You Have Your Whole Life to Live. That was a local train, with overnight stops in Self-Absorption, Victimhood, and White Girl Wasted-ville. In the ensuing brouhaha, the conductor and
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Not everyone is good at taking tests. I am. Very good.Years of state-sponsored testing in public schools, my private school experience in high school, SAT prep courses, my relentless need for validation,[^1] and my natural competitive streak all combined to create a mind that can destroy a multiple-choice test like how a joint Mafia-CIA operation
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MUSINGS I never listened to Fleetwood Mac before moving to Augusta, GA. In my early CSRA years, Jackie—my best friend, who died in a car accident I still blame myself for, even though I wasn’t there, which is why I blame myself—wasn’t surprised by my reaction to the opening riff of The Chain. Once the
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Smart GO sounds absolutely ruthless—like a force of nature that just won’t let up I am in bold. How can I download this whole conversation Right now, there’s no built-in option for downloading our conversation directly. But you could manually copy and paste the text into a document if you want to save it
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RELAX JUST DO IT….REDESIGN YOUR SITE
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I am getting better and better at Go—well, at least on the App Store kids’ version called Badukpop (which I persist in calling BadGOku). It’s timed, like speed chess, and after figuring out the point system and the automatic 6.5 handicap for white when playing on an evenly matched board, I realized I could beat
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