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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Targeted Returns on Current Investment archive/abolish-silicon-valley

[...] George Roberts, the "R" of KKR, claimed that since the Oregon public employee pension fund invested in the KKR fund which bought Safeway, "the masses" benefited. He justified the LBO by stating that Safeway employees were finally being held accountable to global competition. [...] The company…

—p.144 Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution (122) by Karen Ho
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the fear of it could bring it on inspo/revelation

For there were, by this time, degrees and gradations of public sweating, from a light varnish all the way up to a shattering, uncontrollable, and totally visible and creepy sweat. The worst thing was that one degree could lead to the next if he worried about it too much, if he was too afraid that a…

—p.95 The Pale King §13 (93) by David Foster Wallace
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returned sometime later with a gun archive/silicon-jest project/panopticon

Under the sign erected every May above the outer highway reading IT'S SPRING, THINK FARM SAFETY and through the north ingress with its own defaced name and signs addressed to soliciting and speed and universal glyph for children at play [...] and then hard left along the length of a speed bump into…

—p.55 §8 (55) by David Foster Wallace
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noodling impotently about how best to study archive/silicon-jest inspo/characterisation

[...] precious time was lost before he could even think about how to set up a workable schedule for maximally efficient reviewing for the exam, even mentally, which he did every day. His great weakness was strategic organization and apportionment of time, as Reynolds pointed out at every opportunit…

—p.13 §2 (7) by David Foster Wallace
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the actual threat of an LBO was no longer necessary

LBOs generated such an environment of fear that corporations restructured themselves in anticipation of takeover attempts, hoping to raise their stock prices and render themselves less vulnerable to the restructuring rationales of corporate raiders. Shareholder value advocates applauded this ava…

—p.145 Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution (122) by Karen Ho