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fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child

"Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs. Fixing things as an adult that hurt you as a child. Maybe it doesn't make sense at a surface level, but the subconscious marches to its own beat. [...]"

—p.214 Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
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watching the daylight fade over Chicago inspo/setting

I sit in bed watching the daylight fade over Chicago.

Whatever storm system brought the rain last night has blown out, and in its wake, the sky is clear and the trees have turned and there's a stunning quality to the light as it moves toward evening - polarized and golden - that I can only descr…

—p.101 by Blake Crouch
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the entire span of my life yawning out ahead of me topic/growing-older

There's an energy to these autumn nights that touches something primal inside of me. Something from long ago. From my childhood in western Iowa. I think of high school football games and the stadium lights blazing down on the players. I smell ripening apples, and the sour reek of beer from keg part…

—p.10 by Blake Crouch
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if women held half the jobs in Silicon Valley meh/analysis

Let's imagine a world where women hold half the jobs in Silicon Valley. Where half of entrepreneurs, executives, venture capitalists, board members, and employees - including engineers - are women.

[...] "I think there would be two enormous differences," the longtime tech investor Roger McNamee…

—p.250 Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley Chapter 9 (249) by Emily Chang
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Silicon Valley success might be achieved in other ways

The Silicon Valley tropes around who becomes successful [...] young, single guys hacking all night, night after night, in a race to achieve their billion-dollar dreams. No families, no wives, no relationships, no real anything except the Product and the Dream. [...] Those young men have achieved …

—p.221 Chapter 7 (206) by Emily Chang