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Interesting Excerpts From The Books I Read In 2020
I spent most of the 2020 at home and I thought that it would result in a lot more reading than usual (~12 books a year). I was wrong but not entirely, I read 14 books last year:) 2020 Books Following are some random and interesting excerpts: 1. The Worldly Philosophers There is a "preanalytic" process that precedes our logical scenarios, a process which we cannot escape, and which is inescapably colored with our innermost values and preferences. "Analytic work", writes Schumpeter, '...embodies in the picture of things as we see them, and whenever there is any possible motive for wishing to see them in a given rather than another light, the way in which we see things we can hardly be distinguished from the way in which we wish to see them. 2. Technology Strategy Patterns When the good leader's work is done, his aims fulfilled, the people will all say, "We did this ourselves." - Lao Tzu Definition of [technology] archite...