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This time, there would be no witnesses.

- From Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

Quote of the Day

Many people have trouble supporting a decision with which they do not agree, but that they need to do so is simply inevitable. Even when we all have the same facts and we all have the interests of an organization in mind, we tend to have honest, strongly felt, real differences of opinion. No matter how much time we may spend trying to forge agreement, we just won't be able to get it on many issues. But an organization does not live by its members agreeing with one another at all times about everything. It lives instead by people committing to support the decisions and the moves of the business. All a manager can expect is that the commitment to support is honestly present, and this is something he can and must get from everyone.

- Andrew S. Grove, High Output Management

The Car with Turning Fenders

Car Style Critic has the story of the Tasco.

Music Break

Julie London: "Bye Bye Blackbird."

Making Stuff

It is true. 

Eclecticity ("Where does he find this stuff?") Light has the most satisfying video in the world.

Bate's 101

Tip: Run off Nicholas Bate's "How to Be More Intelligent 101."

Musk's Thinking

Inc.: Elon Musk's strategy for thinking about everything.

Film Break

The trailers for:

• "Felony"
• "John Wick: Chapter Two"
• "Logan"
• "The Italian Job" (1969)
• "The Missing"
• "American Gods"
• "Kong: Skull Island"
• "War and Peace"

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A squat grey building of only thirty-two stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

How Rather Than What

Beware the rigidity of those who prescribe what to think as a method for dealing with what they believe will be predictable challenges. Since the world is often unpredictable, learning how to think can be far more valuable.