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Most Valuable Result, Short-Sightedness, 8,000 Poems, and Left a Pineapple
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Cannot Find Peace, 30-for-30, It's Leverage and Druckenmiller
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Suppose I Wanted to Kill a Lot of Pilots
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A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
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A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison
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How to Grow Old Well - "On Old Age", with Cicero
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Deceiving Negotiators, Cheating Students, For Now, & Nothing Happened
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Resources, Bad Habits, Foster Homes, and Britain did a Genocide
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Not a Tragedy, Suggestions, Better Brainstorming, and a Country Churchyard
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Predicting the Unpredictable, Newton, the Worst, and Huberman
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The Way of Archery, Manufacturing the Middle Class, 95% of Market Cap, and Beehiiv
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After a Snake, the Current Thing, Death Toll Comparisons, and English Rhymes
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Good with hard work, Baupost, how to grow old, & people who write books
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