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      children: "Iberia, Italy, and the Balkans barely grew, while Northern Europe saw its population double, triple, or even quadruple."
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Atlas of World Pop History

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      children: "Been holding this book forever, but after watching the anime 'Monster' I got inspired to read it. The main antagonist in the anime is a character who is inspired by Nietzsche's philosophy. The German Ubermensch."
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        children: "\"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.\" - This is the plot of the anime 'Monster' and the main character is a doctor who saves a child who turns out to be a monster. The doctor then becomes obsessed with the monster and tries to understand him, but in the process, he could lose his own humanity."
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        children: "\"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.\""
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        children: "\"The one who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.\""
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        children: "\"Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.\" - This is literally modern Europe. The end of history. No dynamic changes. Just an endless repetition of more bloat. Demographic collapse and a society that has accepted our best days are behind us. Quite pathetic."
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Beyond Good and Evil

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The Blank State

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Bubbles and The End of Stagnation

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    children: "Never found the time to complete this book but I can strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the rise of Russia. All things considered, she had very humble beginnings coming from provincial nobility in Stettin and pushed Russia into its golden age. A lot of similarities with Napoleon coming from Corsica. I'd say the book is great example of why Karl Marx became so popular in the following century."
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Catherine the Great, A Portrait of a Woman

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      children: "THE fundamental book anyone interested in geopolitics should read."
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      children: "My thoughts:\nThe Muslim world has the most odd borders of any civilization. Touching Christian Europe, Hindu India, Buddhist SEA, Jewish Israel, China and Tribal Africa while being adversarial to all of these."
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      children: "The last 200 years Europeans managed to revive 3 historical nations that are destined to be adversaries to the Muslim world:"
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        children: "Greece being revived (Turk barrier in Balkans)"
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      children: "I can't see how the Muslim world can prevent inevitable clash with their neighbors for the entire 21st century, if not for moderating forces such as MBS being in charge."
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Clash of Civilizations

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      children: "title: \"Decline of the West\"\nauthor: Oswald Spengler\ndate: December 12th, 2025\nrating: 8\ncoverImage: https://imgcdn.saxo.com/_9788367583725\nspineColor: \"#1e1e1e\"\ntextColor: \"#fff\""
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      children: "Henry Kissinger has always been a huge inspiration of mine, and he is also the person who eventually led me to read Oswald Spengler. Spenglerism is crucial for understanding both the past and the modern world, as well as for gaining deeper insight into 1930s German conservatism."
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Demons

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      children: "An authoritative book on the art of diplomacy, written by the controversial goat of diplomacy himself, Henry Kissinger. Without a doubt my favorite book of all time. A masterpiece that provides a comprehensive overview of the history and practice of diplomacy, exploring its role in shaping the world order and the challenges it faces in the modern era!"
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      children: "Important insights:"
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        children: "The book starts off interestingly by focusing on some of my favorite historical figures, Périgord, Metternich and Bismarck.\nThe book is a great introduction to the history of diplomacy, and the importance of diplomacy in the modern world."
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      children: "Henry Kissinger's analysis suggests that the three major geopolitical forces of today, China, India, and the United States lack traditional diplomatic experience for various historical reasons. He argues that:"
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      children: "China has historically seen itself as a dominant power in East Asia and has focused inward, ignoring much of the rest of the world. This has shaped its approach to diplomacy as largely self-referential and centered on its own region."
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      children: "India has a long history of regional division and was not a unified state until relatively recently in its history. This fragmented past impacts its approach to international relations, making it less experienced in the continuous practice of diplomacy."
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      children: "The United States developed its foreign policy significantly during the Cold War, a period characterized by ideological conflict with the Soviet Union. This experience was less about traditional balance-of-power diplomacy and more about a binary, adversarial approach focused on ideological and strategic competition.\""
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          children: "My favorite chapter so far is the one on the Congress of Vienna. It's a great example of how diplomacy can be used to shape the world order after a major conflict. Kissingers focus on how Napoleon III and Bismarck both wanted to destroy the status quo is incredible."
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          children: "Furthermore, I have never been a fan of Napoleon III, but after reading this book those feelings have only been reassured. The 30 years war (1618-1648) gave France a 200 year dominance over Europe thanks to a weak Central Europe, but Napoleon III gave Bismarck the perfect excuse to unite Germany and create a strong Central Europe, permanently changing the balance of power in Europe and leaving France 'stuck' without any room to expand.\nA valuable lesson explaining how wanting it all will give you nothing. Napoleon III wanted to change the Metternich system, but turns out France was the one benefitting the most from the system. He sped up the process of a unified Germany & Italy, which left France isolated. In my view, one of the most incompetent leaders in modern history. We can partly blame his incompetence for the two world wars."
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          children: "Another interesting point, that really isn't revolutionary, but still worth mentioning, is the similarity between the British Empire and the United States.  The question internally in both nations become when to play a role in geopolitical affairs. The only threat to Britain has always been a huge nation forming in Europe - Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany are good examples. When that isn't the case Britains focus was elsewhere (Colonialism for example). The situation today is worrying because the only threat to the US is a Eurasian juggernaut forming and that's certaintly the case today with Russia, Iran and China allying up. (Despite obvious historical grievances)"
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          children: "The more I study the more clear it is that luck plays a crucial part in almost all famous successes. True of Bismarck (only appointed because of meltdown in royal circles), true of the likes of SpaceX (an explosion away from bankruptcy) and Steve Jobs (tried to sell early and was turned down), true of Napoleon Bonaparte... We just don’t see all the stories of very able people trying really hard who get taken out by bad luck early in the story. Also though, everybody has bad luck and those who survive long enough to get good luck are very perseverant."
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Diplomacy

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Ecce Homo

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End of History

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Evolutionary Socialism

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      children: "I have been obsessed with Spinoza since I first discovered him back in 2018 when I would daily bike to the library in pursuit of completing the puzzle in my mind. Growing up in one of the world’s most secular countries, my worldview was thrown into contrast when my first girlfriend was Turkish and I had never really given religion any validity or thought. After the breakup I went through a big change in the way I view religion and Spinoza was the stepping stone for that. At times I refer to myself as a pantheist, whether or not I am changes overtime but regardless I find Spinozas description of God quite compelling."
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Ethics

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Frederick II - A Medieval Emperor

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George Soros: A Life in Full

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iOS 15 Programming Fundamentals with Swift

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The Mirage of European Sovereignty

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The Lessons of History

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Mediations

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        children: "Jean Monnet died in 1979, so soon 50 years ago. Europe is incredibly different today than 50 years ago. The idealism hasn't held up to reality so far."
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        children: "\"The nations of Europe are too circumscribed to give their people the prosperity made\npossible, and hence necessary, by modern conditions. They will need larger markets. And\nthey will have to refrain from using a major proportion of their resources to maintain\n\"key\" industries needed for national defence and made mandatory by the concept of sov·\nereign, protectionist States, as we knew them before 1939\" - I fully agree with this sentiment but I don't think the EU has been able to deliver on this promise. Italian unification is comparable - idealist promise that didn't hold up to reality."
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JEAN MONNET, A GRAND DESIGN FOR EUROPE

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      children: "I really love historical and philosophical debates about whether history is linear, circular, hegelian etc. and Polybius is one of my favorite circular historians. It just makes a lot of sense. The topic is only so interesting because there's truths to most view points - even great man theory!"
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Four reasons to study Polybius — most practical of ancient historians

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The Last Question

Shoe Dog

Rome and Persia - 700 Years of History

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      children: "I have always been obsessed with The Matrix and its core idea ever since I was first introduced to it. My favorite show of all time is arguably Naruto Shippuden, where the main villain's philosophy revolves around projecting his \"Dream World\" onto the moon, forcing every human into a Matrix-like state: asleep in a cocoon, their energy harvested by a tree while they remain trapped in a permanent dream."
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      children: "That fascination led me to search for the origins of this way of thinking, and Jean Baudrillard's work is my latest exploration of the idea. I'm not finished with Simulacra and Simulation yet, but it will be my main read this summer while I'm busy writing my own book."
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Simulacra and Simulation

Skin in the Game

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

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      children: "This book is for anyone underestimating Jeff Bezos. I have always found a lot of interest in him due to his childhood/ethnic background being relatively similar to mine. His ancestors are Danish peasants from the same island as my parents and he is raised by a Cuban stepfather (Essentially making him Danish and Cuban just like me..)"
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      children: "Jeff Bezos is without a doubt one of the smartest people around. If you aren't a believer in wealth = intellect, all you need to confirm his intellect is taking a look at him ranking his teachers at the age of 6 and winning tons of competitions early on."
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The Everything Store

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      children: "Ben Horowitz is from a different era but it's quite clear how 'nerdy' early Silicon Valley was - these people were math geniuses prior to any entrepreneurial success."
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      children: "Just before the chapter ends, he talks about the pivot NetScape was forced to make. To make a long story short, Microsoft copied their service but made it much cheaper and better. To be a thorn in Microsoft sides, Netscape did the same and made a cheaper version of Microsoft's original product. Sounds like geopolitics."
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      children: "Horowitz on his relationship with Mark Andreessen: \"People often ask me how we’ve managed to work effectively across three companies over 18 years. Most business relationships either become too tense to tolerate or not tense enough to be productive after a while. Either people challenge each other to the point where they don’t like each other or they become complacent about each other’s feedback and no longer benefit from the relationship. With Marc and me, even after 18 years, he upsets me almost every day by finding something wrong in my thinking, and I do the same for him. It works.\""
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      children: "Chapter 2:"
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          children: "Raising money in the dot com crash. Nothing too surprising - what actually was surprising is how Ben Horowitz always seems to be on the winning side no matter the odds."
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      }), "\n", _jsxs(_components.li, {
        children: ["\n", _jsx(_components.p, {
          children: "the power of individuals (Bill Campbell), breaks communist philosophy that humans are replacable. Pretty ironic considering Ben Horowitz' own ancestors were avid communists."
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        children: ["\n", _jsx(_components.p, {
          children: "The struggle of their stock guidance - \"Should we try to minimize the initial damage by taking down the\nnumber as little as possible or should we minimize the risk of another reset? If\nwe reduced the number by a lot, the stock might fall apart. On the other hand, if\nwe didn’t lower it enough, we might have to reset again, which would cost us all\nthe credibility we had left. My controller, Dave Conte, raised his hand with what\nwould be the definitive advice: “No matter what we say, we’re going to get\nkilled. As soon as we reset guidance, we’ll have no credibility with investors, so\nwe might as well take all the pain now, because nobody will believe any\npositivity in the forecast anyway. If you are going to eat shit, don’t nibble\""
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          children: "Peacetime CEO vs Wartime. Quote from the book: \"I let them present all forty-five slides without my asking them a single question.\nWhen they finished I said, “Did I ask for this presentation?” Those were the first\nwords I spoke as I made the transition from a peacetime CEO to a wartime CEO.\nBy virtue of my position and the fact that we were a public company, nobody\nbesides me had the complete picture. I knew we were in deep, deep trouble.\nNobody besides me could get us out of the trouble, and I was through listening\nto advice about what we should do from people who did not understand all the\npieces\""
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          children: "After selling Loudcloud to EDS, Bill Campbell gave some interesting advice: \"If we hadn’t\ntreated the people who were leaving fairly, the people who stayed would never\nhave trusted me again. Only a CEO who had been through some awful, horrible,\ndevastating circumstances would know to give that advice at that time\""
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      children: "Chapter 4 is definitely the most productive chapter so far. I'd suggest skipping the first three, if you are solely reading the book for productivity gains."
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          children: "Startup CEO’s shouldn’t play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same."
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          children: "Life is struggle"
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          children: "Follow the principle of Bushido - the way of the warrior; keep death in mind at all times. If a warrior keeps death in mind at all times and lives as though this day might be his last, he will conduct himself properly in all manners. Same can be said about CEO’s and startups."
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THE HARD THINGS ABOUT HARD THINGS

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      children: "TLDR: Everything worth doing in life is controlled by \"The Dip\". The Dip you experience after initial success of any project is there to weed out people don't want the result bad enough to do the work. Make it your best friend."
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The Dip - A Little Book That Teaches You When To Quit

The Final Pagan

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    children: "Great book and I recommend it to anyone who is into geopolitics. A great manual on how you survive as a small country when a new power shows up."
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The Mongol Storm

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The Prince

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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      children: "Recently I had exactly this conversation with a Lebanese, who couldn't really understand what makes Poles and Germans so different - after all, according to her, they're both just bland white people."
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The Weirdest People in the World

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Who We Are

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Without Their Permission

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Atlas of World Pop History

Beyond Good and Evil

The Blank State

Bubbles and The End of Stagnation

Catherine the Great, A Portrait of a Woman

Clash of Civilizations

Demons

Diplomacy

Ecce Homo

End of History

Evolutionary Socialism

Ethics

Frederick II - A Medieval Emperor

George Soros: A Life in Full

iOS 15 Programming Fundamentals with Swift

The Mirage of European Sovereignty

The Lessons of History

Mediations

JEAN MONNET, A GRAND DESIGN FOR EUROPE

Four reasons to study Polybius — most practical of ancient historians

The Last Question

Shoe Dog

Rome and Persia - 700 Years of History

Simulacra and Simulation

Skin in the Game

Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

The Everything Store

THE HARD THINGS ABOUT HARD THINGS

The Dip - A Little Book That Teaches You When To Quit

The Final Pagan

The Mongol Storm

The Prince

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Weirdest People in the World

Who We Are

Without Their Permission

Zero to One

The Prince