“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
Bill Gates (verified)
December 6, 2025: Begun work on a profile of Charlie Munger, an advocate of rational thinking in an age too often governed by its opposite 📚
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea is a poignant tale of resilience, dignity, and man’s relationship with nature. Published in 1952, it is one of Hemingway’s most celebrated works and was instrumental in securing him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Ernest Hemingway
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