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"By 43, Mary HK Choi had come up with many explanations for her strangeness around other people. Was it something else all along?"

"Every summer, my parents used to physically drag my little sister and me on long bike rides. [...] A couple miles in, he’d chant, 'Don’t cheat your body! Don’t cheat your body!' as if he could feel my scrawny legs quivering up the hills. I’d roll my eyes."

"Something I spend a lot of time reiterating is that one of the key things that you pay a large class of professionals for is their judgement."

"Who gets to define the future? I have some notes."

"Programmers are people who can endure an endless parade of tedious obstacles. Imagine explaining to a [novice] how to assemble furniture over the phone, with no pictures, in a language you barely speak. Imagine, too, that the only response you ever get is that you’ve suggested an absurdity and the whole thing has gone awry. All the sweeter, then, when you manage to get something assembled."

"Accessing personal information from customers is a serious matter. With the launch of HEY in 2020, we developed some technology and processes to support a very simple principle: employees shouldn’t have access — intentionally or unintentionally — to personal information from our users without their explicit consent."

"Every time I pick this thing up though I can’t help think about that future-of-the-book stuff. The annoying what-if stuff. Like, what if ebooks were just a little better? What if the physical design of the Kobo was a little more Teenage Engineering and less generic, throw-away-able plastic? Where is the fun in the interface? Where is the (ugh) delight in the heft of this thing as an object? Why can’t I quickly pull in every book from Project Gutenberg? Why can’t I navigate the web but in a super-focused, monochromatic way?"

"If a huge company sent a robot to your door to ask for a lock of your hair, would you give it to them? If they asked for one square inch of your land, would you sign it over? If they asked you to run on a treadmill for one minute a day for them, would you hop to it? What if they didn’t ask?"

"In a split window on your second monitor, Tyler Cowen is giving a TEDx talk. He says, 'Every time you're telling yourself a good vs evil story, you're basically lowering your IQ by ten points.' There are only a few such grand stories, he says — seven, or maybe a dozen."

"No. 1 pick by Blackhawks in 2023 Draft says opportunity to meet idol 'has been great for me'"