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“We are remarkably primitive, compared to Um-Helat. Time flows the same in both worlds, but people there have not wasted themselves on crushing one another into submission, and this makes a remarkable difference.”

Book:How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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How Long 'til Black Future Month?

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N.K. Jemisin

N.K. Jemisin is an American science fiction writer born in September 1972. Her works are known for their unique world-building, profound character development, and rich imagination. Jemisin gained widespread acclaim with her 'Inkwood' series, which includes 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms', 'The Broken Kingdoms', and 'The Kingdom of the Gods', with 'The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms' winning the Hugo Award in 2011. more

“In the most devilishly wicked learning environments, experience will reinforce the exact wrong lessons. Hogarth noted a famous New York City physician renowned for his skill as a diagnostician. The man’s particular specialty was typhoid fever, and he examined patients for it by feeling around their tongues with his hands. Again and again, his testing yielded a positive diagnosis before the patient displayed a single symptom. And over and over, his diagnosis turned out to be correct. As another physician later pointed out, “He was a more productive carrier, using only his hands, than Typhoid Mary.” Repetitive success, it turned out, taught him the worst possible lesson.”

Learning Environments

Book:Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Source: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“A TREANT TO BLOOM A LEAFLET”

Technology And Skills

Author:Jonathan Roy Mckinney

“True leadership is aligning everyone on the big exciting picture and inspiring everyone to work on the small boring steps to get there.”

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Book:The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies

Source: The 6 Startup Stages: How Non-technical Founders Create Scalable, Profitable Companies

“There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws that are constant. It has no rules.”