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Taleb's auger: my blog post explaining "upside-down and outside-in" thinking: https://magpiepinette.substack.com/p/... My Ko-Fi (including Discord tier): https://ko-fi.com/readingisaskill I'm on Twitter now: https://x.com/MagpiePinette My consulting page: https://magpiepinette.com/ My animal arts & crafts channel (on hiatus): / @edgubi Companion channel for short readings aloud: / @magpierecites Books mentioned (with applicable affiliate links): Xenosystems by Nick Land – https://amzn.to/44moNor Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows – https://amzn.to/3S5R1RG The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by F. A. Hayek – https://amzn.to/4vZYtfS Structure, Function, and Evolution by Herbert Spencer, ed Stanislaw Andreski – https://amzn.to/3PzJ99O An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1 by Adam Smith – https://amzn.to/4uyJZCA An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2 by Adam Smith (TBR) – https://amzn.to/4vGPRKJ On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (Penguin Classics) – https://amzn.to/4uGlK5i Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth by James Lovelock – https://amzn.to/4uDjv2P Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – https://amzn.to/4vcOQL1 The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler (out of print, this is currently cheapest of many editions) – https://amzn.to/4tHFJRx

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