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My Dark Transhumanist Reading List
Obviously, as an author, I want everyone to buy and read the books I've written as well, but here are a few of the ones I really liked a
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Reflections on the State of the Union
When I heard this line, I had to pause and bask in its profundity. If there was ever a line that so succinctly captured the President's
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Stop Lying to Yourself!!
It's not wrong to want what the master has, but the question is, how are you going to adopt their mindset, rather than rebel against it?
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More Art Than Science ...
Part of the trade secret among artists -Â part of the lie we tell -Â is that we never completely remove the seems or the lines or the edges in
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How to Fail and Win Bigly
The chill point, for me, came when Scott was again backed into an impossible corner. The moment he describes himself as shifting from a pas
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How the Anti-Gun Left Picked the Worst Hill to Die on.
Is it any wonder that most horrific gun crimes tend to take place in areas where guns generally aren't allowed? Places like Chicago, Ba
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Law #1: Never Outshine the Master (Persuader)
So powerful was Scott's writing that, to this day, his conceptualization of creation remains a core component of my own personal cosmolo