CGP Grey adapts The Dictator's Handbook into 18 minutes of animated ruthlessness. Democracy, dictatorship, and why every leader on Earth is playing the same game with different numbers of "keys." One of the most-quoted videos on Hacker News.
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Get Linkwise — free on iPhoneMost of our technology exists to domesticate space. Literature tackles the opposite: how to master ourselves.
Fletcher's reframe saves the humanities from the 'useless majors' pile. Sell Proust as a cognitive tool, not an aesthetic ornament—STEM kids actually buy it.
My reading was not indiscriminate. I preferred books that were old and thick and hard.
Robinson's case for the canon in two sentences: the 2012 defense of thick books read for the right reasons. Still true in 2026.
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