3 quotes from 3 books. Sent weekly.

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—Mark

“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”

—Wild Seed, by Octavia Butler (1980)

“When control structures collapse, how does life carry on? It is done by those on the ground who are managing their everyday lives, caring for others, and keeping things going as best they can. Throughout the centuries being able to exchange value is how human beings learned to interact fairly with each other.“

—Truth Decay - How Bitcoin Fixes This: Unveiling the Path to Financial Freedom, by Victoria Collette Jones (2020)

“Leave people alone under a good structure and they will take care of things.”

—Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2018)