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We placed our hearts on the table, to play the honest game. It was fun, until one is missing.

A book difficult to chew. This book was written in German in 1920 and translated to English in 1929. Perhaps something was lost in translation, or in time. The language in the book is difficult sometimes, but the content is fascinating. Despite the difficulty, I marvel at a soldier’s experience in world wor I. Ernst Jünger is a miracle ...

I don’t know how to make of this book. This is the first time that I don’t know how to comment on a book. I can’t dispute nor affirm author’s viewpoints. It’s a book about near-death experiences as evidence for heaven. You can watch John Burke’s interview and decide for yourself. John Burke interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3e...

When you visit a place for the first time, you should always ask yourself whether you would like to come back again. Sometimes your heart tells you no, such as Cancun. Other times it’s a yes, such as Spain. Whether you will really revisit or not is another story, but it tells how much you enjoyed the journey. If there’s only one thing I could...

Writing computer software is one of the purest creative activities in the history of human race. John Ousterhout wrote a very generous praise for software design in the first paragraph of his book. All code peasants should read it and feel good for a few seconds. It’s All About Complexity I guess complexity is still a too complex term to...

So this is what this book is about – that dream, the first forty, those years “whose margins fade for ever and forever” as we move. As a young man I never understood what the beautiful phrase from Tennyson meant. That was the one thought in the whole beautiful poem “Ulysses” that eluded my grasp. Now I know why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...

If you are only working 8 hours a day, you are slacking Training to become a surgeon is brutal. Neurosurgeon is even more so. But, really, It takes years of hard work and dedication to be good at anything. 8 hours a day won’t be enough. First third of the book is boring The author was a good kid, a great student from elementary school ...

There is NOT always a happy ending In American movies, there is always a happy ending. The hero saves the world and reunites with his sweetheart. In Russian movies, heroes die, but life goes on. Maybe different history does give people different presumption about life and world. With only 200 years of mostly peaceful history, Americans are o...