Birnam Wood: A Novel
Writing for Leverage, Teenage Billionaires, The Problem with Mainstream Media, and More - David Perell on Off the Chain, Hosted By Anthony Pompliano • Podcast Notes
podcastnotes.orgOnly here’s what I really, really want someone to explain to me. What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-
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Sam was all in on the sacrifice. Caroline Ellison wasn’t like that. She lacked confidence in herself. “She was borrowing her ego from Sam because she lacked one,” said George. “Sam gave her real inner strength.” In George’s EA patient population, Caroline defined the other end of the spectrum of willingness to sacrifice for her principles. When she
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Clingstone’s gaze turned inward, and more gently she said, “It never occurs to people that maybe I’d like to be the reckless one. The disrupter! As the years have passed, I have discovered in myself this . . . energy. Is it anger? A touch of spite? I’m not sure.” She looked back toward the restaurant. The beans on their strings were rippling on a b
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