Books

Upshots: One Sentence Summaries

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Perfecting Sound Forever by Greg Milner

Recording is no longer a document of a real event, rather a separate art altogether.
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Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

After a long cold Winter, Spring is more vigorous.
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Kubrick by Michael Herr.

Perfection is infuriating.
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Nietzsche: Life as Literature by Alexander Nehamas

Nietzsche was an artist of his own life.
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Moby Dick by Herman Melville

The point is more important than the execution.
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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee

Writing a script and writing dialogue are not the same thing.
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The Iliad, Homer

When you stick to your guns, people get hurt.
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Steve Jobs Biography by Walter Isaacson

The man made a "dent in the universe."
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Outliers by Malcom Gladwell

Talent means nothing without practice and opportunity.
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The Plague by Albert Camus

Epidemics uncover what we're really like.
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Blink by Malcom Gladwell

A second is all we need to know.
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What the Dog Saw by Malcom Gladwell

The only way to make people happy is the lowest common denominator.
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Guns, Germs, & Steel by Jarod Diamond

Food is the reason why the world is the way it is.
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The worst punishment comes from inside.
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The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell

If you want to stop crime, fix broken windows.
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The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin

When titans compromise, the world suffers.
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