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But if this ideal of freedom may be absolute within its domain, this is possible only because the domain is narrow, tightly limited by rigorous conditions for entering it.
Ari Schulman • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future
When people proposed a short-term solution, Page’s instinct was to think
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Having an institution geared to producing really top-rate people who play within the system is not going to set the world on fire, but maybe we don’t want a world on fire.
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
of being sentenced to at least twenty years in prison. And yet he hesitated. “I’d have to think about exactly what that meant,” he said after a long pause.
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
WHY AREN’T PEOPLE LOOKING FOR SECRETS?
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In a recent summing-up essay in Antinomy, Swiss observed