What books are you reading?

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orichá wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:02 am "Mt. Paektu is located at 42 degrees North Latitude.

"Kim Jong Il was born in 1942.

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Always wearing a nice suit, think he was already between 50 and sixty at that time.
Interesting story. I enjoyed Literary Outlaw more than any of his novels. He was born in 1914 though so would have been around 70 when you met him.
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Going Infinite - Michael Lewis

This is the story of Sam Bankman Fried and how he got to where he ended up. The book concludes in 2023 when SBF was first arrested. You know the rest of the story.

I still can't figure out how someone of such high intelligence, but with zero emotional intelligence, can have acted so stupidly. But 25 years? That seems to be a simple way to neatly pile all the blame on one person, whereas there are many more actors in this tragedy - co-workers, lawyers, regulators and, most notably, CZ of Binance.

It's not a long long book, but Lewis weaves the story nicely in a succinct way.

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https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=BC ... 1E0B00CC82
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