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The Pursuit of Noiselessness

Monday Memo for August 21, 2023

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Tom Gentry
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“To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.’”

-J. Robert Oppenheimer

Happy Monday, folks.

First, I want to thank my big sister, Beth, for becoming a paid subscriber, at the Founder’s level, yesterday. I love you, Beth. Thank you for being the opposite of what I described in the story I…

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