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The sights and sounds of Bhutan
Ever present in my mind is The List: the countries I still haven’t gone to that I most want to visit.
Ethiopia is on The List. So is Indonesia. And South Korea. And Madagascar. And Taiwan.
Early on, my wife and I pledged to visit two new countries every year, and we mostly pulled it off. Then came Covid, followed by two babies, and we fell off the wagon.
This year we remembered that we were gonna die
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What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
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2023
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4 editions
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The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why
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2016
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Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader
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2015
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The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
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2015
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3 editions
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Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future
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The Story of Us
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2019
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6 editions
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The Cook and the Chef
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How to Pick a Career
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What Makes You You?
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From Muhammad to ISIS: Iraq’s Full Story
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“Be humbler about what [you] know, more confident about what's possible, and less afraid of things that don't matter.”
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“I’ve heard people compare knowledge of a topic to a tree. If you don’t fully get it, it’s like a tree in your head with no trunk—and without a trunk, when you learn something new about the topic—a new branch or leaf of the tree—there’s nothing for it to hang onto, so it just falls away. By clearing out fog all the way to the bottom, I build a tree trunk in my head, and from then on, all new information can hold on, which makes that topic forever more interesting and productive to learn about. And what I usually find is that so many of the topics I’ve pegged as “boring” in my head are actually just foggy to me—like watching episode 17 of a great show, which would be boring if you didn’t have the tree trunk of the back story and characters in place.”
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“Depending on where The Great Filter occurs, we’re left with three possible realities: We’re rare, we’re first, or we’re fucked.”
― Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader
― Wait But Why Year One: We finally figured out how to put a blog onto an e-reader
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