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Another vast omission is my failure to have quietly collapsed the Soviet Union and swept the rubble offstage when nobody was looking.
Sure he left out cell phones, but was he really wrong about the USSR still existing?
“boredom is also an opportunity for discovery and invention.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“Fear those who seek your company for their own vanity. As soon as you eclipse them in the mirror, it won’t be the mirror they break.”
― Dark Age
― Dark Age
“David attributed fatigue and inattentiveness to a mental illness rather than to sleep deprivation and overstimulation,”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
“It did not want to extend to them their full humanity—that was clear. But as long as she didn’t open her mouth, ask for too much, or rock the boat, she could stay. As long as she could agree to exist only in a certain way. Like, half a person.”
― The Faculty Lounge
― The Faculty Lounge
“It’s pretty exhausting avoiding yourself all the time.”
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
― Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
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Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
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