Profit and Loss by Mises made me realize that the reason the free market works is akin to natural selection.
It's not even the main point of the essay.
Anyway it's great and a short read, also free
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#12Two Views of the Mississippi by Mark Twain. In a career defined by the pursuit of knowledge it’s good to mull on how knowledge dissolves beauty.
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#13The Neuroscience of Despair: The trouble with seeing depression solely as a brain malfunction
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-neuroscience...
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#14Thank God For the Atom Bomb:
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/iakh/HIS1300MET/v12/unde...
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#15Keep Your Identity Small (1)
This essay has saved me from wasting away so much time in general.