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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Feb 2018
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted may-li  🦄 khoe

    I sincerely believe that World War Z (the book, not the atrocious Brad Pitt movie of the same name) would be on high school curricula across most of the US except for its genre. Deep themes. Sophisticated literary devices. Also, zombies.https://twitter.com/mayli/status/968044956186062848 …

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    may-li  🦄 khoe @mayli
    What are some books, articles, videos, papers, essays... poems etc. that you’ve revisited over and over, perhaps for many years, but that you worry about admitting in public? Any guilty pleasures? Stuff you’ve never wanted to admit? Random ass niche stuff? https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/968032549464244224 …
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    • Kyle Gordon Mohr ꧁👁👁꧂ Jan Buss Arno Rohwedder Shane O'Sullivan Paul Pajo 🧢 [Jan/3➞₿ 🔑∎] #Insulin4All {#HODL} Mike Roncone Antman.md ⌨️ Richard Tibbetts
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Feb 2018
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        I won't spoil it for you but: It's a better realized dystopia than 1984 or Hunger Games, by a lot. The text is explicitly a semi-reliable narrator working through analysis of primary source documents and *other* unreliable narrators, including one who is Plot Twist.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Feb 2018
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        There's also quite a bit of the "Let's take a jaunt around the world and Experience Cultures Different Than Ours" and while those are sarcasm caps it was clearly high-effort and sincere. (Including the rare acknowledgement for high school fiction that US culture is complicated.)

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      4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Feb 2018
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        It also manages to be a better Lord of the Flies without even trying, has a better case for monarchism than the entire US lens on the English literary canon tossed off in two paragraphs of flavor text, has a critique and countercritique of US power, etc etc.

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      5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 27 Feb 2018
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        It's not about the zombies, is what I am saying.

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      2. Peter Ibbotson‏ @peteri 27 Feb 2018
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        Replying to @patio11

        I think it would have made a better TV series. One chapter per show.

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      3. Jim‏ @cat_in_the_tap 27 Feb 2018
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        Mini season per chapter?

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      1. Barry O Sullivan‏ @barryosull 27 Feb 2018
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        I just hope the movie didn't stop people from reading the book. They are worlds apart.

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      1. Ⓒhristian Ⓢauer‏ @c17r_ 27 Feb 2018
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        Agree, huge fan of zombies but they make up a very small percentage of the awesomeness of WWZ. One favorite part is the lamenting of wasted resources by techies trying ridiculous SciFi approach to clearing out the Zombies when the best thing was a sharpened entrenching tool.

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      1. Florian Kuhnke‏ @JFKuhnke 1 Mar 2018
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        Excellent recommendation. Just finished reading it because of your tweet. Thank you @maxbrooksauthor for writing it.

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      1. Scott Elrod‏ @scelrod13 27 Feb 2018
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        I describe it to people as a socio-political commentary on a global apocalyptic event... With zombies haha.

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