# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 13)
- If good software can be written and given away like this, who needs Microsoft or companies like it?

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 20)
- Windows 3.1 shipped in June 1992

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 41)
- So [Ken's wife] Bonnie took their not quite one-year-old and flew to the West Coast for the month of August 1969."
During this time, Salus says, "Ken just sat down and wrote the Unix operating system in four weeks, in assembler"–the low-level programming language that is only slightly easier to use than entering binary digits of machine code directly.

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 42)
- "The Unix philosophy is really very easy," Salus says, "and consists of maybe two or three notions. The first one, which is perhaps the most innovative thing that Thompson ever thought of, is that everything is a file. Second is the notion that when you build something, no matter whether it's an editor or whether it's a way of attaching one file to another file, you write things that are for a single purpose but do that purpose well."

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 51)
- The person who had designed the Lisp Machine, Richard Greenblatt—described by Levy as "the hacker's hacker"

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 54)
- "In some ways it was very comfortable because I was doing almost nothing else," he says, "and I would go to sleep whenever I felt sleepy; 
 when I woke up I would go back to coding; and when I felt sleepy again I'd go to sleep again. I had nothing like a daily schedule. I'd sleep probably for a few hours one and half times a day, and it was wonderful; I felt more awake than I've ever felt. And I got a tremendous amount of work done [and] I did it tremendously efficiently."

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 58)
- Stallman wanted an operating system that could be easily transferred from one type of hardware to another. Because most operating systems had been conceived as the housekeeping software for one type of computer, portability was the exception rather than the rule. "Unix was, at least as far as I knew, the only portable system that really had users on different kinds of computers.

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 59)
- His Unix work-alike would be called GNU, an acronym that stood for "GNU's Not Unix

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 65)
- This approach of releasing code and encouraging feedback
 and modifications from users, although not new–it had formed an implicit part of the entire Unix culture for years–became central to the rapid improvement of free software over the next fifteen years. 
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Note: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 90)
- "The license said fairly clearly [that] the source code shall not be made available to students," Tanenbaum recalls. "Period. Nothing. None. Zero." Version 7 represented the symbolic closing of Unix inside the black box of proprietary software—a sad end to what had long been the ultimate student hacker's system.

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 101)
- advTHANKSance 
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Note: "Thanks" in "Advance"?
*groan*

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 207)
- the general philosophy he would adopt henceforth: that of "make it work first, then make it better," as the Linux Networking-Howto puts it

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 286)
- Linux now has a logo thanks to the artistic talents of Larry Ewing, and one version 
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Note: The Tux logo first appeared in Linux 2.0

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# Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revo - Glyn Moody

## Highlights:
(Page: 291)
- what might be called the Linux method is evident: Rather than trying to develop software on the best possible environment—a fast processor, lots of memory, no strange peripherals—you use an underpowered machine with lots of extras to winkle out unusual bugs.

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# Don't Just Sit There, DO NOTHING - Jessie Asya Kanzer

## Highlights:
(Page: 166)
- So, remember:
You never know where you will find meaning—
keep your eyes and mind open.
When life throws you a bone, use it,
and when others impress you, use them as an example.

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# Home Is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- Nothing brings people together better than death.

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# Home Is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- Death reminds us that life isn't infinite and that one day, our time will come too.

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# Home Is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- We pause

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# Home Is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- waiting for it to call us again, hoping the next call will be to gather, rather than to be gathered around.

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# Home Is Where the Bodies Are - Jeneva Rose

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- Knock, knock.
Don't worry. It's not for you . . . this time.

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 14)
- "Give us food. Give us wine. Then our song shall be thine." 
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Note: Mummers!

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 27)
- CHRISTMAS IN BARCELONA 
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Note: Toys that come to life on Christmas. Don't pick the wrong one...

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 67)
- FRESH AS THE NEW-FALLEN SNOW 
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Note: Snegurochka - the Snow Maiden
If you don't cherish your children, you'll lose them.

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 93)
- LOVE ME 
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Note: The worst Christmas Present is a needy monster.

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 136)
- NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS 
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Note: GenPets

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 189)
- A little boy stood in front of me. Every time he fidgeted, a cloud of dirt came off his clothes. Poor little orphan. He held a pair of shoes. 
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Note: Good old Jeff Strand - taking that glurgy Christmas Shoes song to a horrific extreme

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# Hark! The Herald Angels Scream - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 208)
- IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE 
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Note: A knife that appears for one minute on Christmas

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 80)
- Zack and Ruth Burgess were never named as the couple in the "Love Shack" story, which was soon replaced by some other bit of scandal in the newspaper, but somehow, many of the residents of Parmenter Road had come to that conclusion. Zack and Ruth—who insisted that the teens in the neighborhood call them by their first names—were rumored to have done all kinds of other things, including abducting and drugging kids in the back of Zack's van.

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 6)
- Tony felt the twinge of melancholy he always got when he looked at his now-seventeen-year-old daughter. 
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Note: Chloe is Tony's daughter

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 8)
- They'd been putting the whole display together as a team since Chloe was six. She had loved it even then, never scared of the terrifying props. Her little brother, Rick, was thirteen years old and in the eighth grade, and he still refused to even walk through the Haunted Woods. Once it had been fear that drove the kid, but Tony thought now it was simple disinterest. Either that, or Rick thought of the Haunted Woods as "Dad and Chloe's thing," with himself and his mom on the outside. 
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Note: The Barbosa's have been hosting a "haunted yard" for years

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 10)
- if Rick didn't want anything to do with the Haunted Woods, wanted to leave that to his sister, that was more than okay. It was nice for Tony and Chloe to have something just for themselves, especially since Chloe was older,

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 25)
- Steve Koenig was a junior, at sixteen too young to have his driver's license,

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 29)
- a Dominican girl whose makeup and hair made her look like Siouxsie Sioux was something to stare at. Okay, she did steal some of her eyeliner and shadow designs from pictures of Siouxsie and the Banshees, but she usually wore a T-shirt, a hooded sweatshirt, jeans, and boots—all black. Nothing sexy, nothing that hugged her body extra tight. 
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Note: Vanessa Montez

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 36)
- Donnie meant well. He was a good attorney, a halfway decent father, and a passable husband when he felt like it. For the rest, he skated by on charm and dimples and too much to drink.

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 41)
- Eleven-year-old Charlie 
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Note: Charlie Sweeney 

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 40)
- Barb smiled when she saw Julia up on the ladder. At eighteen, she'd been in more than her share of trouble—Barb didn't like to think about it—but she had straightened herself out and would be off to community college next fall. 
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Note: Julia Sweeney .

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 46)
- Her mother was Vietnamese and her dad Dominican, and these boys didn't know what to make of her, which was just fine. Vanessa had never been interested in boys. 
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Note: Vanessa is gay. Steve is her best friend

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# All Hallows_ A Novel - Christopher Golden

## Highlights:
(Page: 243)
- Evil things with the faces of boys fought over Julia and Vanessa, each wanting to drag them through as some kind of offering to what they called their mother, a witch called Carmun.

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# The Mindful Geek_ Secular Meditation for S - Michael W Taft

## Highlights:
(Page: 52)
- "neurons that fire together, wire together

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# The Mindful Geek_ Secular Meditation for S - Michael W Taft

## Highlights:
(Page: 58)
- mindfulness means paying attention to your present-moment sensory experience in a nonjudgmental manner.

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# The Mindful Geek_ Secular Meditation for S - Michael W Taft

## Highlights:
(Page: 61)
- mindfulness meditation is a psychological technique that involves paying attention to your present-moment sensory experience in a nonjudgmental manner, and which makes the unconscious conscious for the purpose of improving your life.

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# The Mindful Geek_ Secular Meditation for S - Michael W Taft

## Highlights:
(Page: 87)
- There are many ways of feeling better, but one of the most powerful is simply to concentrate on what you are doing in the moment.

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# Funny Horror - Alex Shvartsman

## Highlights:
(Page: 99)
- "Now we get to the fun part. We're gonna install VüDü; it's a wicked little Linux distro. If your badger's got some kinda brain damage, you can do a modified install, but it's a real bitch. And rabies makes the whole thing a crapshoot. Read the frickin' manual before you try it."

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# Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 145)
- "Relax. There's absolutely nothing to panic about." I smile gratefully at him and pretend that's all I needed to hear and that this is just a silly phase that will pass one day. I know there's nothing to panic about. And that's exactly what makes it so much worse.

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# Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 189)
- I didn't want to have to explain why I'd taken three times the recommended amount of laxatives and three times the recommended amount of antidiarrhea medicine, because even to me that sounded like some sort of poorly planned suicide attempt.

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# Off to Be the Wizard - Scott Meyer

## Highlights:
(Page: 3)
- Even its name made Martin sleepy—repository1-c.txt. The moment that Martin thought, No sane person would download a file like that, was the moment he decided to give it a try.

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# Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 105)
- what would Alfie say to the farmer's wife? That he just dropped by for dinner? Would he advise her to save Russian Jews, collect valuable prizes? Would he begin by saying, "Ma'am, according to at least one source I've read recently, all that you love will be carried away"?

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# Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 106)
- From the room to the left of the one where he intended to kill himself, Alfie could hear the early news, but it would sound better in that farmhouse over yonder, he was sure of that.

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# Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 324)
- DINKY'S DAYBOARD. That's another fringe benefit. I write down whatever I want during the week, and I get everything I ask for

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# Surfing on the Internet_ A Net - J. C. Herz_20

## Highlights:
(Page: 310)
- Logoff.Gotofridgeandopenitinhopesofseeingthat somethingnewandzanyhasspontaneouslymaterialized.
Ithasn't.
Gobacktocomputerandlogoninhopesthatsome-thingnewandzanyhasspontaneouslymaterialized.
Ithas.

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# Surfing on the Internet_ A Net - J. C. Herz_20

## Highlights:
(Page: 309)
- "Pleasetellmealltheclocksarewronganditisn'treally 4:30AMandIhaven'tbeenonfor3daysstraight "

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# King, Stephen - Pet Sematary

## Highlights:
(Page: 139)
- Content.
Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood.
Something gonna happen here, Bubba. Something pretty weird, I think.

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# King, Stephen - Pet Sematary

## Highlights:
(Page: 242)
- Days which seem genuinely good—good all the way through—are rare enough anyway, he thought. It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man's life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain.

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# King, Stephen - Pet Sematary

## Highlights:
(Page: 103)
- That's what you do, all right, he thought with immeasurable relief. You pass it like a stone, and that's the end of it . . . unless there comes a campfire some night with friends  when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap.

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# Knight, Sarah - Calm the F_ck Down_ How to Control What You Can and Accept What You Can't So You Can Stop Freaking Out and Get on With Your Life

## Highlights:
(Page: 52)
- Anxiety
Sadness
Anger
Avoidance (aka "Ostrich Mode")
These are the Four Faces of Freaking Out

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 122)
- THE BODY SET WEIGHT

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 122)
- There appears to be a "set point" for body weight and fatness

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 127)
- Since obesity results from a high body set weight, the treatment for obesity is to lower it. But how do we lower our thermostat? The search for answers would lead to the discovery of leptin.

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 148)
- In other words, before you can even begin to burn fat, you start feeling hungry and anxious because your glycogen is becoming depleted. If you continually refill your glycogen stores, you never need to use your fat stores for energy.

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 179)
- Chronically elevated cortisol leads to increased insulin levels

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 200)
- As kids, we used to call this the second-stomach phenomenon: after the first stomach for regular food was full, we imagined that there was a second one for desserts. Somehow, despite being full, we still have room for highly refined carbohydrates like cake and pie—but not proteins or fats. Highly refined and processed foods somehow do not trigger the release of satiety hormones, and we go ahead and eat that cake.

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 200)
- Think about foods that people say they're "addicted" to. Pasta, bread, cookies, chocolate, chips. Notice anything? All are highly refined carbohydrates. Does anybody ever say they are addicted to fish? Apples? Beef? Spinach? Not likely. Those are all delicious foods, but not addictive.

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 201)
- Refined carbohydrates are easy to become addicted to and overeat precisely because there are no natural satiety hormones for refined carbs. The reason, of course, is that refined carbohydrates are not natural foods but are instead highly processed.

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# Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent Fasting Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The

## Highlights:
(Page: 203)
- Birthdays, weddings and holiday celebrations—what do we eat? Cake. Ice cream. Pie. Not whey powder shakes and lean pork. Why? Because we want to indulge. The Atkins diet does not allow for this simple fact, and that doomed it to failure. 
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Note: But what if we use Keto temporarily, just to recover from indulgences or to "get back on the wagon"?

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# The Bad Game - Adam Millard

## Highlights:
(Page: 81)
- NINE

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# The Bad Game - Adam Millard

## Highlights:
(Page: 88)
- TEN

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# Pet Sematary - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 87)
- That's what you do, all right, he thought with immeasurable relief. You pass it like a stone, and that's the end of it . . . unless there comes a campfire some night with friends  when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap.

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# Pet Sematary - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 114)
- Content.
Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood.

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# Pet Sematary - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 203)
- It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls—as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself.

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# In the Beginning...Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson

## Highlights:
(Page: 12)
- With one exception, that is: Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks.

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# In the Beginning...Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson

## Highlights:
(Page: 13)
- HACKER WITH BULLHORN: "Save your money! Accept one of our free tanks! It is invulnerable, and can drive across rocks and swamps at ninety miles an hour while getting a hundred miles to the gallon!"
PROSPECTIVE STATION WAGON BUYER: "I know what you say is true…but…er…I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
BULLHORN: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"

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# In the Beginning...Was the Command Line - Neal Stephenson

## Highlights:
(Page: 34)
- if Microsoft sells goods that are aesthetically unappealing, or that don't work very well, it does not mean that they are (respectively) philistines or half-wits. It is because Microsoft's excellent management has figured out that they can make more money for their stockholders by releasing stuff with obvious, known imperfections than they can by making it beautiful or bug-free. This is annoying, but (in the end) not half so annoying as watching Apple inscrutably and relentlessly destroy itself.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 20)
- When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets.''

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 31)
- What I have here is my list of valuable things to take on your next motorcycle trip across the Dakotas.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 41)
- I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 59)
- He was after something and he used the knife because that was the only tool he had. But he took on so much and went so far in the end his real victim was himself.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 108)
- A light switch in DeWeese's studio didn't work and he asked Phaedrus if he knew what was wrong with it.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 148)
- For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 63)
- Solution of problems too complicated for common sense to solve is achieved by long strings of mixed inductive and deductive inferences that weave back and forth between the observed machine and the mental hierarchy of the machine found in the manuals. The correct program for this interweaving is formalized as scientific method.

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# Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 63)
- When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy,'' and you crank up the formal scientific method.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 37)
- In the professional world:
It's not at all clear what you should be taking notes on.
No one tells you when or how your notes will be used.
The "test" can come at any time and in any form.
You're allowed to reference your notes at any time, provided you took them in the first place.
You are expected to take action on your notes, not just regurgitate them.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 49)
- So much of our intellectual output—from brainstorms to photos to planning to research—all too often is left stranded on hard drives or lost somewhere in the cloud.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 65)
- Most important of all, don't get caught in the trap of perfectionism: insisting that you have to have the "perfect" app with a precise set of features before you take a single note. It's not about having the perfect tools—it's about having a reliable set of tools you can depend on, knowing you can always change them later.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 70)
- "CODE"—Capture; Organize; Distill; Express. 
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Note: This sounds very "Getting Things Done"

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 112)
- We have a natural bias as humans to seek evidence that confirms what we already believe, a well-studied phenomenon known as "confirmation bias."6

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 112)
- If you're not surprised, then you already knew it at some level, so why take note of it?

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 123)
- First, you are much more likely to remember information you've written down in your own words. Known as the "Generation Effect,"10 researchers have found that when people actively generate a series of words, such as by speaking or writing, more parts of their brain are activated when compared to simply reading the same words.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 124)
- There is even significant evidence that expressing our thoughts in writing can lead to benefits for our health and well-being.11 One of the most cited psychology papers of the 1990s found that "translating emotional events into words leads to profound social, psychological, and neural changes." 
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Note: Jornaling through problems.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 125)
- The moment you first encounter an idea is the worst time to decide what it means. You need to set it aside and gain some objectivity.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 137)
- the Cathedral Effect.2 Studies have shown that the environment we find ourselves in powerfully shapes our thinking. 
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Note: This is why people expect psychic readings and seances in a dark room with candles and incense.

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 268)
- It is much easier to show someone a small thing, and ask for their thoughts on it, rather than the entire opus you're creating. It's less confronting to hear criticism on one small aspect of your work, at an early stage when you still have time to correct it, than getting a negative reaction after months of effort. 
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Note: This is my feelings about regular check-ins with managers or superiors. It sucks to find out after a ton of work that it was all for nothing. 

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# Building a Second Brain_ A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential - Tiago Forte

## Highlights:
(Page: 4)
- Introduction 
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Note: Started 2022-09-01

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 10)
- The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. Shortly after we meet them, the author lets us know that these are not just any Nazi leprechauns. These are psychic Nazi leprechauns who enjoy S&M, are covered with scars from pleasure/pain sessions with their creator, were trained as sex slaves for full-sized human men, and are actually stunted fetuses taken from Jewish concentration camp victims. And one of them is named Adolph. 
---
Note: The Little People - John Christopher
The Gestapochauns

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 144)
- But it all started with Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings (1973), a chilling tale about a family who escapes the city to move into a summer rental…from hell. 
---
Note: Horror in the 70's.  When everything went to hell.

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 100)
- Fictional clowns come with a body count. Edgar Allan Poe's Hop-Frog (1849) was a dwarf forced to be a jester who burned eight courtiers to death.

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 72)
- Not so for McGill, who returned in 1982 to write an Omen novel not based on a film, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, which opens with a scene of rectal childbirth.

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 89)
- The only book written by Mendal W. Johnson, who died two years after it was published, 1974's Let's Go Play at the Adams' still elicits passionate loathing. Search online and you'll find readers who describe destroying the book after finishing it, who write about being left ill, about how sick the author must have been. They call it "misogynistic" and "loathsome." Yet people remember it vividly decades later.

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 102)
- If all the knife-wielding kindergarten kids, psychic preschoolers, and homicidal high-school students from this chapter were in a school picture, The Voice of the Clown (1982) would be the snarling six-year-old standing slightly to the side, staring into the camera, clutching a clown doll. Her name is Laura, and she sees right through you. Whatever tricks you try to make her like you, she and her clown are ready. 
---
Note: Nocturnal Revelries Review: https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2020/02/16/the-voice-of-the-clown-brenda-brown-canary/

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 109)
- Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 1984, the year Jack Chick published his infamous anti-RPG (role-playing game) tract Dark Dungeons, claiming that these dice-and-paper games were a gateway to satanism and suicide.

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 109)
- In 1979, Egbert disappeared from his dorm room at Michigan State University and was traced to the steam tunnels that ran beneath the campus. There the trail went cold. His parents hired private investigator and tireless self-promoter William Dear to look into the case. Dear knew that Egbert played Dungeons and Dragons, and he heard that some of the Michigan State students LARPed in the steam tunnels (LARP stands for live-action role-playing, a type of game in which costumed players interact in character.) Dear knew absolutely zilch about D&D, so he told a reporter that the game might have had something to do with the disappearance. That was all the press needed to declare Egbert a victim of a D&D game "gone wrong," igniting a media maelstrom. 
---
Note: The Dungeon Master - William Dear
The book that started the D&D Satanic Panic

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 111)
- Mazes and Monsters is best remembered today for its TV movie adaptation, which aired in 1982 and featured Tom Hanks in his first leading role, as Pardieu the Holy Man, freaking out on the streets of New York before trying to jump off the World Trade Center. 
---
Note: Mazes and Monsters - Rona Jaffe
The book and the movie were both fun, B-movie diversions.  Hard to belive that anyone took them seriously,

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# Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix

## Highlights:
(Page: 111)
- Protagonist Scott Gardiner is exactly the kind of kid Jaffe warned us was vulnerable to RPGs' lurid lure: brilliant, creative, socially awkward, and with a dead dad. He's also into a truly terrible RPG called Hobgoblin that may be only slightly less ridiculous than Mazes and Monsters. In a deeply unrealistic touch, Scott became wildly popular after introducing this RPG to Spencertown, his fancy boarding school. 
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Note: Hobgoblin - John Coyne
OK, in retrospect, this story is a bit silly.  But I found this book in my teens and I'd still watch a TubiTV adaptation if someone made one.  Major nostalgia hit for me.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 5)
- Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.
— Otto H. Warburg

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 64)
- cancer cells ferment glucose in the presence of oxygen, a characteristic now known simply as "the Warburg effect.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 132)
- Warburg was able to describe grossly what he believed to be the fundamental alteration in cancer cells: They fermented glucose in the presence of oxygen. But Warburg had failed to discover why or how cancer cells exhibited this effect.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 138)
- the faster a tumor grew and the more aggressive it was—the lower the overall number of mitochondria and the more it fermented glucose.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 150)
- Herceptin carried the weight of Atlas. It was saddled with soaring expectations—it was a drug of the future, the first product of purely rational drug design. The story of its path from idea to FDA approval contains all the drama and vicissitudes of a Hollywood production: heroes, villains, rich philanthropists, impassioned activists, desperate cancer patients, and stoic visionaries. In the end the story would be told in television shows, newspapers, and books, and was even made into the 2008 Lifetime television film Living Proof.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 161)
- Once manufactured, isolated, and purified, the antibodies were called monoclonal antibodies. Here was the targeted therapy they needed. 
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Note: Wasn't this mentioned by the anti-vaxxers as hope against COVID? 

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 244)
- beyond the obvious preventative measures like not smoking and avoiding other carcinogens, the only established way to reduce overall cancer rates was through caloric restriction or periodic fasting, a practice known to restore mitochondria, again linking cause to metabolism.

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 276)
- The strange results raised another question: Why would restricting calories slow tumor growth?

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 277)
- When Seyfried summarized all his research in his 2012 book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease,

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# Tripping over the Truth - Travis Christofferson

## Highlights:
(Page: 279)
- Epigenetic signaling is the crucial link, the process that Warburg was unable to identify

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# Whisper Down the Lane - Clay McLeod Chapman

## Highlights:
(Page: 149)
- DON'T PANIC!

Your Friendly Satanic Panic Reading and Viewing List, Annotated by Clay McLeod Chapman

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# Krampus and the Thief of Christmas_ A Christmas Novel - Eldritch Black

## Highlights:
(Page: 5)
- Prologue 
---
Note: Started 2022-11-18

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# Off to Be the Wizard - Scott Meyer

## Highlights:
(Page: 6)
- It was the kind of file nobody would ever look at. Five terabytes of plain ascii text characters. Even its name made Martin sleepy—repository1-c.txt. The moment that Martin thought, No sane person would download a file like that, was the moment he decided to give it a try.

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 52)
- "Would you like to help me bring in the groceries?"

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 64)
- "This is the Pentagon," he boomed in his most official voice. "What is your security clearance, please?" From the phone upstairs, Samson heard terrified gasps, and the click of a phone being hung up.

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 67)
- LAC,DAC,DIPPY DAP,LIO,DIOJUMP!

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 83)
- "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine."

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 87)
- The Right Thing implied that to any problem, whether a programming dilemma, a hardware interface mismatch, or a question of software architecture, a solution existed that was just . . . it. The perfect algorithm.

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 315)
- On Fridays at noon, On-Line would enact a ritual entitled "Breaking Out the Steel." "Steel" was the clear but potent Steel's peppermint schnapps which was On-Line Systems' beverage of choice.

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 331)
- The instant that John Harris ended his interesting conversation and saw that his software collection was gone, he knew his soul had been wounded.

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# Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy

## Highlights:
(Page: 339)
- On September 1, 1982, Dick Sunderland began as the president of On-Line Systems, which coincidentally was also changing its name. Reflecting the proximity of Yosemite, the company would now be called Sierra On-Line,

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# Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 26)
- He saw that her suitcase had shoved all his trays of slips over to one side of the pilot berth. They were for a book he was working on and one of the four long card-catalog-type trays was by an edge where it could fall off. That's all he needed, he thought, about three thousand four-by-six slips of notepad paper all over the floor.

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# Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig

## Highlights:
(Page: 29)
- In addition to the topic categories, five other categories had emerged. Phædrus felt these were of great importance: 
---
Note: Unassimilated, crit, program, tough and junk

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# Walden, or, Life in the woods_ and, _On the duty of civil disobedience_ - Henry David Thoreau

## Highlights:
(Page: 129)
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived

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# Walden, or, Life in the woods_ and, _On the duty of civil disobedience_ - Henry David Thoreau

## Highlights:
(Page: 35)
- I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

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# It_ A Novel - Stephen King

## Highlights:
(Page: 2062)
- Love and Desire/August 10th, 1958 
---
Note: "That" scene

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 8)
- most sysadmins are tenacious problem solvers. They will attach themselves to a problem like a bulldog and not let go until the problem relents. Other tasks, such as appointments and life support (like food or sleep), become secondary as they persevere, and work on the problem either in person or in their head far beyond the usual time limits. For people who habitually say, "Just one sec, I almost have this fixed," time management can be a challenge.

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 17)
- Keep all your time-management stuff in one place.
Use your brain for what you are working on right now, and use external storage for everything else.
Develop routines for things that happen periodically.
Pre-compute decisions by developing habits and mantras.
Maintain focus during project time.
Improve your social life by applying these tools outside of work, too.

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 133)
- don't rely on your brain. An organizer is the right tool for recording dates; your brain isn't.

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 177)
- The act of explaining something out loud to someone helps us solve our own problems. How many times have you realized the solution to a problem while explaining it to someone else? Life is full of those moments when you tell someone, "So there's this problem, see? If I...." Suddenly you realize the answer, and there is no need to continue talking. It happens all the time. 
---
Note: Rubber Duck programming 

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 145)
- The big secret is to write down your goals. When they are in your head, they aren't as fleshed out as you think they are. They are nebulous. They can't be evaluated, shared with others, or worked on.
The process of writing them down forces you to make them concrete. It's also a lot easier to prioritize a list that is written down.

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# Time Management for System Administrators - Thomas A. Limoncelli

## Highlights:
(Page: 91)
- The Cycle is, as Goldilocks would say, "just right." It utilizes a device (either PDA or PAA) that you can carry everywhere with the bonus benefit of keeping everything in one place.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 18)
- Unless you are happily sound asleep at that hour, 2:00 A.M. is usually not the best of times.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 18)
- I think of 2:00 A.M. as feeding time.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 22)
- the Meatloaf Protest Song.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 23)
- Especially Thanksgiving leftovers. When the refrigerator becomes the Fort Knox of late-night dining.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 35)
- Norman was declared the pig in the story of Cinderella.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 46)
- With a heavenward salute with the cigar, he set off down the street. SMOKING MY CIGAR. I followed, not knowing quite what to do. I really wanted that cigar back.

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 52)
- "I (hiccup), Mary, do take you (hiccup), John, to be my (hiccup). …"

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 221)
- The invitations to this ruly (as opposed to unruly) event were signed in elegant Victorian script by "Emily Phipps (Miss), social secretary."

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# Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum

## Highlights:
(Page: 26)
- THIS BOOK HAS A HUDSON'S BAY START.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 45)
- First, you need to figure out why you feel this way, so you can figure out what to do about it. ACKNOWLEDGE the problem. You do that part, and I'll help with the rest.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 43)
- There is a reason for your anxiety, a what-if behind your worry. And if you can name it, you'll be in a much better position to calm the fuck down about and deal with it.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 49)
- Because whether it's bubbling up or already boiling over, it helps to know which type of freakout you're experiencing.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 51)
- Anxiety
Sadness
Anger
Avoidance (aka "Ostrich Mode")
These are the Four Faces of Freaking Out

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 53)
- one of the most toxic and insidious side effects of being anxious is OVERTHINKING.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 54)
- Ongoing sadness is EXHAUSTING. As energy flags, you might stop eating or leaving the house, which compounds the encroaching lethargy. You'll get less and less productive. And all of that can lead to feeling depressed and giving up on dealing with your shit altogether.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 56)
- an invisible—though no less damaging—result of an angry freakout is that it impedes good judgment. IT MAKES THINGS WORSE.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 167)
- You don't have to follow through—merely thinking about the mayhem you could visit upon your enemies is a terrific mood booster. 
---
Note: Journaling the fantasy result you want? 

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 59)
- The tricky thing about Ostrich Mode is that you may not even realize you're doing it, because "doing it" is quite literally "doing nothing." You're just ignoring or dismissing warnings and pretending like shit isn't happening. Nothing to see here, folks! Head firmly in the sand. 
---
Note: Joe and Jimmy excel at this. Sometimes I'm jealous. 

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 60)
- If your worries have sent you into Ostrich Mode, you haven't actually escaped them. They'll be sitting right outside your hidey-hole the next time you lift your head.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 63)
- FREAKOUT FACES: THE FLIPSIDES
Anxious and overthinking?
FOCUS: Which of these worries takes priority? Which can you actually control? Zero in on those and set the others aside. (A bit of a recurring theme throughout the book.)
Sad and exhausted?
REPAIR WITH SELF-CARE: Treat yourself the way you would treat a sad friend in need. Be kind. Naps, chocolate, baths, cocktails, a South Park marathon; whatever relieves your funk or puts a spring back in your step and a giggle in your wiggle.
Angry and making shit worse?
PEACE OUT WITH PERSPECTIVE: You can't elbow yourself in the ribs like I did to my husband in the Mexico City airport (seriously, elbows don't bend in that direction). But when you're getting hot under the collar, you can imagine what it would be like to live out your days in a south-of-the-border airport holding pen. Visualize the consequences and adjust your attitude accordingly.
Avoiding and prolonging the agony?
ACT UP: Take one step, no matter how small, toward acknowledging your problem. Say it out loud. Write it in steam on the bathroom mirror. Fashion its likeness into a voodoo doll. If you can do that, you're on your way to calming the fuck down.
So there you have it: a simple framework for acknowledging your worries, recognizing your unhealthy reactions, and beginning to reverse them.
I mean, I didn't become an internationally bestselling anti-guru by making this shit hard for you guys.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 66)
- "fuck bucks," which are the resources—time, energy, and money—that you spend on everything you care about,

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 67)
- I give you freakout funds (FFs).
These are the fuck bucks you access when shit happens.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 69)
- At some point, you have to eat, rest, and renew the old-fashioned way—and if the shit does hit the fan, you'll wish you'd spent less energy freaking out about it and had more left in the tank to devote to dealing with it.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 70)
- Worrying is wasteful. It costs you time, energy, and/or money and gives you nothing useful in return.

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 72)
- Angry? This might be the biggest misuse of freakout funds, since it usually adds to your debt. 
---
Note: I feel like I learned this many years ago when I lost at Madden 95 and threw the controller.  Now I had a loss on my perfect season record and only one working controller. 

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 78)
- if you freak out all the time, about everything, you're spending heavily against your account of goodwill. 
---
Note: In another book, you might call this person a psychic vampire. Don't be one. 

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 82)
- we actually-clinically-anxious people need to take some personal responsibility. We need to acknowledge our tendencies, do some soul-searching, and maybe go to a doctor or therapist or Reiki healer or something and sort out our shit 
---
Note: Example: don't believe my anxiety when I'm tired. My tired brain makes things way more dramatic than they really are. Acknowledge your weaknesses and consider how they are affecting the situation. 

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# Calm the F_ck Down - Sarah Knight

## Highlights:
(Page: 92)
- If you practice mindfulness, you might know this trick as "Teflon mind," so termed because negative thoughts aren't allowed to stick.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 85)
- I can't think of another type of illness where the sufferer is made to feel guilty and question their self-care when their medications need to be changed.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 87)
- Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 108)
- And also, WHY IS THERE A BEAR IN MY BED?" and I was like, "Because that one's juuust right," and Victor looked at me incredulously because apparently his mother never read him "Goldilocks."

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 117)
- like when I heard about "microdermabrasion," which I suspect is Latin for "I want to pull off your skin and turn it into a jacket." My dermatologist sent me an e-mail about it, saying something about how my new skin was suffocating underneath layers of my old, dead skin, and I suddenly felt like I was wearing a mask of dust mites and dirt.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 119)
- I use nothing but soap and water until one of those mall beauticians stops me on my way to buy a pretzel to tell me how bad I look and convinces me to lavish my face with an expensive cream that makes me immediately break out, probably because my face is not used to being cared for and is panicking.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 125)
- Imagine carrying seven pockets with you at the carnival. You can't. You'd need a purse. Then you'd get on the Zipper and it'd be fine for a minute until your purse popped open and all of your stuff was being poltergeisted around the cage at you like you were a kitten in a dryer full of batteries, and then your phone gave you a black eye. This is all based on real life, by the way.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 136)
- Here's a picture of just a few of the buttons on a Japanese toilet:
I'm not entirely sure what these are all for but I think the top one that looks like a stick figure is to notify people that you've found the Blair Witch, and I think the next one means "Poop won't go down. Use your foot." I assume the orange button on the far left is for starting a war, and then there are two for washing your boobs for some reason, and then one about levitating on a fountain, and I think the last one is for ordering bacon?

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 147)
- You know when you're walking to the trash can at the zoo and you're holding something important in one hand, and you have something you have to throw away in the other hand, and you're sort of distracted 
---
Note: This entire story is gold. 

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 169)
- And God shook his head and muttered, "Jesus, that fucking snake is like TMZ." And then Adam was like, "Who's Jesus?" and God said, "No one yet. It's just an idea I'm throwing around."

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 171)
- Sometimes being crazy is a demon. And sometimes the demon is me.
And I visit quiet sidewalks and loud parties and dark movies, and a small demon looks out at the world with me. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it plays. Sometimes it laughs with me. Sometimes it tries to kill me. But it's always with me.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 173)
- Did you just break into an essay in the middle of our interview?

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 174)
- It's not your fault if the medication or therapy you're given to treat your mental illness doesn't work perfectly, or it worked for a while but then stopped working. You aren't a math problem. You're a person. What works for you won't always work for me (and vice versa) but I do believe that there's a treatment out there for everyone if you give yourself the time and patience to find it.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 176)
- some people prescribe God for depression or self-harm, and I think that can be really helpful for people who aren't me.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 177)
- Those same well-meaning people will tell me that I'm keeping myself from recovering because I really "just need to cheer up and smile." That's when I consider chopping off their arms and then blaming them for not picking up their severed arms so they can take them to the hospital to get reattached.

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# Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

## Highlights:
(Page: 326)
- When I was young we were quite poor, but we never really talked about it.

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# Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Linus Torvalds & David Diamond

## Highlights:
(Page: 142)
- It was growing to be much more.

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# Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Linus Torvalds & David Diamond

## Highlights:
(Page: 146)
- Ari Lemke must have been quite an optimist

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 64)
- The First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed in an isolated system.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 64)
- But thermodynamics, a law of physics, has minimal relevance to human biology for the simple reason that the human body is not an isolated system.

---

# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 65)
- We obsess about caloric input into the system, but output is far more important.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 66)
- We certainly don't mind if energy is burned as heat or used to build new protein, but we do mind if it is deposited as fat. There are an almost infinite number of ways that the body can dissipate excess energy instead of storing it as body fat. 
---
Note: Not all calories are destined to be fat. Reducing calories also reduces available energy to maintain the body. 

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 70)
- The men experienced profound physical and psychological changes. Among the most consistent findings was the constant feeling of cold experienced by the participants. 
---
Note: Starvation diet complaints 

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 71)
- Calories are needed to heat the body. Fewer calories were available, so body heat was reduced. Result: constant feeling of cold.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 72)
- The body reacts in this way—by reducing energy expenditure—because the body is smart and doesn't want to die. What would happen if the body continued to expend 3000 calories daily while taking in only 1500? Soon fat stores would be burned, then protein stores would be burned, and then you would die.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 73)
- If we reduce daily calorie intake by 500 calories, we assume that 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) of fat per week is lost. Does that mean that in 200 weeks, we would lose 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and weigh zero pounds? Of course not.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 75)
- Tired of feeling so lousy, she abandons the failed diet and resumes eating 2000 calories per day. Since her metabolism has slowed to an output of only 1500 calories per day, all her weight comes rushing back—as fat. 
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Note: Why it's so easy to regain weight after losing and then abandoning a calorie restricted diet 

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 69)
- The Biology of Human Starvation. 
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Note: Ancel Key's experiment in restricting calories to lose weight didn't account for the types of calories the participants were eating (heavy carbs)

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 97)
- Total energy expenditure = Basal metabolic rate + Thermogenic effect of food + Nonexercise activity thermogenesis + Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption + Exercise.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 97)
- total energy expenditure is not the same as exercise. The overwhelming majority of total energy expenditure is not exercise but the basal metabolic rate

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 98)
- Certain foods, such as dietary fat, are easily absorbed and take very little energy to metabolize. Proteins are harder to process and use more energy.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 99)
- Decreased caloric intake can decrease basal metabolic rate by up to 40 percent. We shall see that increased caloric intake can increase it by 50 percent.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 115)
- There appears to be a "set point" for body weight and fatness,

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

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(Page: 116)
- The question, then, is what makes us fat in the first place. In other words, why is the body set weight so high?

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 139)
- Glycogen is like your wallet. Money goes in and out constantly. The wallet is easily accessible, but can only hold a limited amount of money. Fat, however, is like the money in your bank account. It is harder to access that money, but there is an unlimited storage space for energy there in your account. Like the wallet, glycogen is quickly able to provide glucose to the body. However, the supply of glycogen is limited. Like the bank account, fat stores contain an unlimited amount of energy, but they are harder to access.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 173)
- the hormonal theory of obesity takes shape: chronically high cortisol raises insulin levels, which in turn leads to obesity.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

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(Page: 174)
- Stress contains neither calories nor carbohydrates, but can still lead to obesity. Long-term stress leads to long-term elevated cortisol levels, which leads to extra pounds.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 190)
- Think about foods that people say they're "addicted" to. Pasta, bread, cookies, chocolate, chips. Notice anything? All are highly refined carbohydrates. Does anybody ever say they are addicted to fish? Apples? Beef? Spinach? Not likely. Those are all delicious foods, but not addictive.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 241)
- It is simply not necessary to eat the minute we wake up. We imagine the need to "fuel up" for the day ahead. However, our body has already done that automatically. Every morning, just before we wake up, a natural circadian rhythm jolts our bodies with a heady mix of growth hormone, cortisol, epinephrine and norepinephrine (adrenalin). This cocktail stimulates the liver to make new glucose, essentially giving us a shot of the good stuff to wake us up. This effect is called the dawn phenomenon, and it has been well described for decades.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 246)
- To put it simply, you cannot eat more to weigh less, even if the food you're eating more of is as healthy as vegetables.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 295)
- Where glucose can be dispersed throughout the body for use as energy, fructose is targeted like a guided missile to the liver.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 295)
- The body handles excess glucose consumption through several well-defined metabolic pathways, such as glycogen storage and de novo lipogenesis (creation of new fat). No such system is present for fructose. The more you eat, the more you metabolize. The bottom line is that excess fructose is changed into fat in the liver. High levels of fructose will cause fatty liver.

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# The Obesity Code - Jason Fung

## Highlights:
(Page: 297)
- INSULIN IS NORMALLY released when we eat. It directs some of the incoming glucose to be used as energy and some to be stored for later use.

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