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Dec 16, 2022Liked by Max Read

I hope I live long enough to see the exposé of the rare bespoke amphetamines he's been on for the last few months.

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Dec 15, 2022Liked by Max Read

(The dunking on mastodon is very correct)

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What do you make of the weird synchronicity between Musk's devolution into paranoia and and desperation and Ye's 100% unlock cancellation TAS? Even if you believe that they were always forces of chaos, why have their inclinations become so exorbitant lately? (A boring, causal answer would be that something very bad is circulating in the rich people drugs)

Edit: Are expensive soul samples a "low rates" phenomenon?

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Tight labor market means good handlers are harder to find?

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I’d be curious to look into his level of organization when building and exiting from his first companies :// I’d be surprised if these same tactics worked in the beginning of his career...

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Podcast? More like nerdcast

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any one got book recommendations, for someone enjoying Andor, past Alan Furst, Le Carre, etc etc...? thanks to anyone out there that has brother in laws for christmas

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Stupidly I don't know Furst-style resistance fiction that well -- maybe Modiano? Or Laurent Binet's 'HHhH'? Both of which are a bit more ambitious than Furst. Or Hans Fallada's 'Every Man Dies Alone'?

My standby broader literary spy recommendations are David Quammen's extremely underlooked 'The Soul of Viktor Tronko' which is a sort of American 'Tinker Tailor,' and Joe Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy.' There's also Javier Marias, who's great but is maybe too arty for brothers-in-law...

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