## ebooks/Dickens, Charles - Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:56:55 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door._“Come in!” exclaimed the Ghost. “Come in! and know me better, man!” - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Present - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:58:17 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Past - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:59:50 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded - **Note:** The Ghost of Christmas Future - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:00:36 --- ## ebooks/Doctorow, Cory - Enshittification_ Why Everything Suddenl - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Apple has mastered the bizarre trick of convincing its customers that the act of purchasing consumer electronics from a $3 trillion company makes you a member of an oppressed religious minority - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:42:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Once a company is too big to fail, it becomes too big to jail, and then it becomes too big to care - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:56:07 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** That’s a dynamic that’s already playing out - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/31/2026 at 03:25:18 --- ## ebooks/Forte, Tiago - PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and Mas - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The only action I recommend avoiding at all costs is duplication: you never want to have two versions of a file or document, because then you never know which one is the most current - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:01:36 --- ## ebooks/Fung, Jason MD - Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of W - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If we eat an extra 200 calories today, nothing prevents the body from burning that excess for heat. Or perhaps that extra 200 calories is excreted as stool. Or perhaps the liver uses the extra 200. We obsess about caloric input into the system, but output is far more important - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:02:56 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:03:09 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** in 1944 and 1945, Dr. Ancel Keys performed the most complete experiment of starvation ever done—the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:04:17 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The men experienced profound physical and psychological changes. Among the most consistent findings was the constant feeling of cold - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:05:04 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The body reacts in this way—by reducing energy expenditure—because the body is smart and doesn’t want to die - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:05:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:05:51 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There appears to be a “set point” for body weight and fatness - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:07:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Homeostatic mechanisms defend this body set weight against changes, both up and down - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:07:51 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:08:42 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:09:06 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:09:50 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:10:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:10:44 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Excessive fructose puts significant pressure on the liver since other organs cannot help. It is the difference between pressing down with a hammer and pressing down with a needlepoint: much less pressure is needed if it is all directed onto a single point.__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:11:26 --- ## ebooks/Gelb, Jeff & Garrett, Michael - Kiss and Kill_ Tales of Erotic Horror - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** BONUS NOTCHES - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:12:07 --- ## ebooks/Herz, J C - Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adv - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Log off. Go to fridge and open it in hopes of seeing that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized.__ It hasn't.__ Go back to computer and log on in hopes that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized.__ It has - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:52:40 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** It reads like some wacked-out librarian has taken a few hits of crystal meth, decided that computer languages, television, fan clubs, and sex—in that order—are the essential human pursuits, and overhauled the Dewey decimal system accordingly - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 22:53:43 --- ## ebooks/King, Stephen - Bazaar of Bad Dreams, The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** It didn’t strike him as peculiar that, whereas the Henderson kid’s Kindle had been white, his was pink.Not at first. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 01:48:35 --- ## ebooks/King, Stephen - Pet Sematary - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:13:05 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:13:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Keep him alive, Ellie, if that’s what you want, he thought and kissed her. The shrinks would probably say it’s as unhealthy as hell, but I’m for it. Because I know the day will come—maybe as soon as this Friday—when you forget to carry the picture and I’ll see it lying on your bed in this empty room while you ride your bike around the driveway or walk in the field behind the house or go over to Kathy McGown’s house to make clothes with her Sew Perfect. Gage won’t be with you, and that’s when Gage drops off whatever Hot One Hundred there is that exists in little girls’ hearts and starts to become Something That happened in 1984. A blast from the past - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:14:02 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “That place . . . all at once it gets hold of you . . . and you make up the sweetest-smelling reasons in the world . . . but I could have been wrong, Louis. That’s all I’m saying - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:18:16 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Lester did it and Stanny did it for the same reason I did it. You do it because it gets hold of you. You do it because that burial place is a secret place, and you want to share the secret, and when you find a reason that seems good enough - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:18:54 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she’s never really seen into any man’s heart. The soil of a man’s heart is stonier, Louis—like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground. Bedrock’s close. A man grows what he can . . . and he tends it. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:19:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Do you think the ground’s gone sour?”_Jud smiled—or at least his lips slanted. “I think it’s a dangerous place,” he said softly, “but not for cats or dogs or pet hamsters. Go on and bury your animal, Louis. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:20:06 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Because you saved Norma’s life,” Jud said, and although he sounded sincere—and Louis was positive he believed himself sincere—he had a sudden, overpowering sense that the man was lying . . . or that he was being lied to and then passing the lie on to Louis. - **Note:** Jud was repaying Louis. A favor he never should have offered. But a repayment nonetheless. - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:20:47 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Louis got a cheerier assessment from Weybridge, her doctor, however. “I wouldn’t even call it a minor myocardial infarction,” he said. “No scarring. She owes you a hell of a lot, Dr. Creed.” - **Note:** Louis saved Norma's life. Jud will want to repay that favor. - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:22:50 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:24:10 --- ## ebooks/King, Stephen - Shining, The - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** His daddy said it was a NACK. Some people had the NACK and some people didn’t. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:15:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Hello? This is Jack Torrance at 149 Mapleline Way. My son here can’t stop crying. Please send THE MEN IN THE WHITE COATS to take him to the SANNY-TARIUM. That’s right, he’s LOST HIS MARBLES. Thank you.” And the gray truck with no windows would come rolling up to his door, they would load him in, still weeping hysterically, and take him away. When would he see his mommy and daddy again? NO ONE KNOWS. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:16:16 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Mr. Ullman would probably do neither because he was a CHEAP PRICK. Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:17:14 --- ## ebooks/Lawson, Jenny - Furiously Happy - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** 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 chapter is gold. - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 01:54:33 --- ## ebooks/Lawson, Jenny - How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay_ Tip - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful._ —Buddha_ This is basically Buddha saying, “BUT DID YOU DIE?”_ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:25:45 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** And that’s why I’m making a motion to make solitary introvert breaks a normal thing. Perhaps it just hasn’t caught on before because it doesn’t have a catchy name like “smoke break,” so I suggest we call it “airplane mode.” As in, “I’m sorry. I’ve just placed myself in airplane mode. I’m not accepting any new information. I cannot receive any communications. I’m recharging only. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:26:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If your habits seem weird as fuck to everyone else but you’re still getting your shit done and you’re happy with it, you win. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:27:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Working on Easy Mode Is Still Working - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:27:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** . I often get stuck in a fear cycle that causes an inertia that keeps me rooted to the ground and unable to move forward. Usually that’s because I’m thinking too far ahead. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:28:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** You don’t have to finish everything today to move forward and progress. You just have to take one more step than you did yesterday. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:29:16 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I reassuringly yelled, “I KNOW THIS LOOKS WEIRD BUT I ASSURE YOU I WAS NOT TAKING PHOTOS THROUGH YOUR WINDOWS. I WAS JUST MAKING A VIDEO OF LIZARDS HAVING SEX IN YOUR TREE.” They said nothing and so I added, “For my sister” because I thought that might help._ It did not. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:29:50 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** When you sleep deeply, your mind cleans itself by sending fresh fluid into the brain and then flushing it out, along with all the toxins and wastes, like a washing machine for your noggin. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:30:22 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Zombie noise is the sound of horror movies often playing quietly in the background while I work. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:31:05 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Zombie noise is the sound of horror movies often playing quietly in the background while I work. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:31:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The kid had a stack of plastic elastic bracelets they put on in the morning that were different colors for different actions and they could take off the bracelets as they did the actions. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:31:57 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Someone on Twitter recently told me that “ADHD meds are as addictive as heroin” and I’ve never done heroin but if heroin addicts are always forgetting to take their heroin for days at a time then, yeah, it’s totally like heroin. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:32:34 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** some of it was my brain telling me that doing something fun was somehow a waste of time. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:33:04 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Stop working while you still have some idea of what you want to do next. It makes you more eager to start again the next morning. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/28/2026 at 23:33:39 --- ## ebooks/Limoncelli, Thomas A. - Time Management for System Administrator - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** By using_ one system for both work and nonwork tasks, you get more practice at_ using The Cycle, you have only one system to carry around, and you_ benefit from not forgetting the nonwork stuff that makes your life_ better. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 02:00:44 --- ## ebooks/Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenanc - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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!_Ach, du lieber! - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 00:34:46 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 00:35:14 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 00:36:16 --- ## ebooks/Thoreau, Henry David - Walden, or, Life in the woods_ and, _On - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 01:57:11 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 01:57:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/29/2026 at 01:58:31 --- ## ebooks/Williams, Sam - Free as in Freedom _ Richard Stallman's - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Stallman, after breaking off a split end and popping it into his mouth, cuts me off.“I’m not in his league, but I do play the same game,” he says, chewing. - **Note:** See? He's weird. - **Created On:** 05/30/2026 at 22:49:03 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/30/2026 at 22:51:02 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** When it comes to copyrighted works, Stallman says he divides the world into three categories. The first category involves “functional” works—e.g., software programs, dictionaries, and textbooks. The second category involves works that might best be described as “testimonial”—e.g., scientific papers and historical documents. Such works serve a purpose that would be undermined if subsequent readers or authors were free to modify the work at will. The final category involves works of personal expression—e.g., diaries, journals, and autobiographies. To modify such documents would be to alter a person’s recollections or point of view—action Stallman considers ethically unjustifiable. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/30/2026 at 22:51:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “I admire and respect Richard for all the work he’s done,” says Red Hat president Robert Young, summing up Stallman’s paradoxical political nature. “My only critique is that sometimes Richard treats his friends worse than his enemies.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/30/2026 at 22:52:38 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** One look into Stallman’s green eyes, and you know you’re in the presence of a true believer. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 05/30/2026 at 22:53:16 ---