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    <title>List of Beautiful Ads and Videos</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Inspiring launch / product videos that I am keeping here for reference. Last updated: 2025-09-21. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Thoughts on Cognitive Filtering</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Why are some people much more interesting to talk to? ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>On young talent and unconfidence</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A personal blog on talent becoming younger, my unconfidence, and helping others. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Talent and Talent Groups</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Some groups produce extraordinary talented people. Who are those groups, and what can we learn from them? This page will list all the groups I've noticed that yield exceptional individuals. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Newsletters</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ A list of consistent, high-quality, information-dense newsletters. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Boom - Bubbles and the End of Stagnation</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  On December 7, 1941, an unprepared United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor, crippling much of the US fleet. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Good Strategy Bad Strategy</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  leader’s most important responsibility is identifying the biggest challenges to forward progress and devising a coherent approach to overcoming them. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Cold War - A New History</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  No one today worries about a new global war, or a total triumph of dictators, or the prospect that civilization itself might end. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Courage to be Disliked</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  a young friend who dreams of becoming a novelist, but who never seems to be able to complete his work. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Thinking Fast and Slow</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.” (Page 19) Valid intuitions develop when experts have learned to recognize familiar elements in a new situation and to act in a manner that is appropriate to it. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Ultralearning</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  Consider that over the last twenty years, the amount of knowledge easily accessible from a quick online search has exploded. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Countersignaling</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I’ve written previously that Consumer Psychology is very difficult to understand. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Clear Thinking</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  The “zone of average” is a dangerous place when it comes to inertia. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Atomic Habits</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Small Changes, Big Impact We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Chip War</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Though its position has weakened dangerously China now spends more money each year importing chips than it spends on oil. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Fundamentals of Data Visualization</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Preface Figures should be autogenerated as part of the data analysis pipeline (which should also be automated). ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Monsters of Men</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes I only wanna control myself, thank you. I ain’t got no interest in the rest of the world. “Everyone says that. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Poverty, by America</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Pickers in Amazon warehouses have access to vending machines dispensing free Advil and Tylenol. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Rich Dad Poor Dad</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Today I often wonder what will soon happen when we have millions of people who need financial and medical assistance. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The 5AM Club</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Stay frozen in average and succumb to the mass mediocritization of behavior. As you grew up, you forgot how to be human. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Alchemist</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes We are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. We grow up with this idea, and as the years accumulate. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Almanack of Naval Ravikant</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes If you don’t know yet what you should work on, the most important thing is to figure it out. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Boron Letters</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Run or jog is in the morning. It is good for your health and gives you clearheaded thinking. Also workout. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Lean Startup</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Lean Startup Cycle The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products, measure how customers respond, and then learn whether to pivot or persevere. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Nvidia Way</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  innovation is a necessity, not an option. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>When McKinsey Comes to Town</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Market Power Correlated with Society The rising market power of corporations contributed to some of society’s most intractable problems: wage growth stagnated as productivity grew; before-tax profit of U.S. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Zero to One</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ 📝 Notes Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Random Ramblings</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Right now it is 12-10-2024 for me. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Public Speaking Advice</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Communication is a good skill to learn, so here are some advice I’ve collected over the years specifically on good communication and public speaking: Always provide the bottom line upfront. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>To Be Great</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ We like to believe in the idea of a genius because it gives us an excuse for being lazy. It gives us an excuse for not being great. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Interesting Stories</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ There is one episode from Lenny’s podcast with Matthew Dicks that calls on people to write down stories every day. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>On Dropping Out</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Grant Allen I’m dropping out! For those who know me, this may come as a big shock. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Email Advice</title>
    <link>https://brain.maxxyung.com/lists/email</link>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Some email I have for myself, and for people who want to get better at email. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Maxx&#039;s README</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This page is inspired by this document I stumbled across randomly. This will forever be a work in progress as I update my working style. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Founder Traits</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Having talked to dozens of founders now, I’ve generally come to terms that exceptional people and founders often share very similar traits. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Exceptional Traits</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Traits and signs of exceptional people. They can massive risks and pursue asymmetrical bets in life – most people play it safe. They are very curious. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Worldwide Questions</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  What makes super-effective people super-effective? Either individually or collectively. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Productivity Apps</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Sometimes I get asked about the things I use to build, stay productive, or buy to pretend I’m being productive when I’m really just procrastinating (master procrastinator here). ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Youtube Subscriptions</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ My personal YouTube Subscriptions backup page. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Energy Optimism</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ This summer, I participated in the Hult Prize Challenge in Lisbon, Portugal with my team from Nanoneuro Systems. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Move Over Software - the Deeptech Era is Here</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Hardware dominated the 1900s. We developed as much as we could with human grit and manual calculations. The first integrated circuits. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Skunk Works</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ On Skunk Works I learned a lot about Skunk Works. Arguably, it is the best and most badass division of engineers anywhere in the world. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Books</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ My book tracker. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Advice</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Some life advice I have for myself, and for people like me. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Understanding Consumer Psychology</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ As I’ve written in some of my other articles,1 I believe building a consumer product (such as a B2C focused venture) is extremely difficult. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>My Idea Thesis</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[  To turn the impossible into the possible and, at the same time, provide value otherwise unseen in the history of humankind. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Reflecting on my First Year at Penn</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Getting into Penn My first experience with Penn was actually pretty negative. My dream school was always MIT. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Gravitational Ambition</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I remember sitting at my desk at Penn (suffering from spontaneous insomnia) and beginning to draft this post on gravitational ambition. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of High-Signal Learning Materials</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ I read a lot; this is a list of best essays/blogs/videos/articles that I've come across. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Phase 0 of Hardtech Companies</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Founding a hardtech startup is, well, hard. It is expensive, it requires talent, and it often seems to fall in the zone of impossibility. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Building Strong Moats</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Why Moats Are Important What is a moat? A moat is your startup’s ability to maintain an advantage over your competitors - a set of competitive advantages that makes it hard for other companies to compete. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The AI Race is On</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ The AI race is on. Nvidia’s $47.5B data center revenue in 2023 is 18% more than total data center revenues for the past 5 years combined. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Building What People Want is Wrong</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Build what people want. That’s nuanced advice. One, it is hard to build what people want. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Zone of Impossibility</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ There is a world of difference between something that’s impossible and something that’s almost impossible. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>List of Quotes</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Some quotes I collect, wrapped in a narrative. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>About Me</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ My name is Maxx Yung. I studied Materials Science and Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Decline of Big Tech is a Net Good</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ With the recent mass layoffs in big tech, I hope to see: The decline of prestige associated with big tech A rise in technical and active optimists who set out to change the world As of now, big tech employees are merely the corporatized version of the hackers who once inspired the tech industry, who... ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Do Less</title>
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    <description><![CDATA[ Sometimes, to be more productive, just do less. ]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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