Merge branch 'v4' of https://github.com/muhsinking/notebook into v4

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content/essays/Whacky Snacky Jackie Chan.md

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 1. The filmography of Jackie Chan
 2. Unusual snacks
 
-Some might call these snacks _unnecessary_, but they would be sadly mistaken. Wacky snacks are the hallmark of an advanced society—a bellwether of our relentless pursuit of greatness, excess, and decadence. Just as humanity, having conquered soil and sea, reached for Everest and then the stars, so too did we transcend the humble Cheez-It to create the Extra Toasty Cheez-It, the Extra Cheesy Cheez-It, the Extra Crunchy Bold Cheddar Cheez-It—and so on. It's in this Pursuit of Wackiness that we attain ever more daring heights of deliciousness and depravity, expanding our understanding of truth, beauty, and freedom.
+Some might call these snacks _unnecessary_, but they would be sadly mistaken. Wacky snacks are the hallmark of an advanced society, a bellwether of our relentless pursuit of greatness, excess, and decadence. Just as humankind, having conquered soil and sea, reached for Everest and then the stars, so too did we transcend the humble Cheez-It to create the Extra Toasty Cheez-It, the Extra Cheesy Cheez-It, the Extra Crunchy Bold Cheddar Cheez-It—and so on. It is in the Pursuit of Wackiness that we attain ever more daring heights of deliciousness and depravity, expanding our understanding of truth, beauty, and freedom.
 
 At the inaugural gathering for WSJC, participants arrived armed with an arsenal of eccentric edibles, ranging from mildly intriguing to utterly cursed. What follows is an unflinching review of the night’s most memorable (and regrettable) bites.
 

content/lists/Books.md

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 ## Reading now
 
-- Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (Gaus and Thrasher)
-- Snow Crash (Neal Stepehnson) [Reread]
+- Snow Crash
 ## To read
 
 ### Nonfiction

content/notes/The Science of Storytelling.md

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   - quotes
 date: 2025-03-17
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-Quotes from *The Science of Storytelling* by Will Storr (not in order of appearance).
+Excerpts from *The Science of Storytelling* by Will Storr (not in order of appearance).
 
 ## Intro
 
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 > Good stories are explorations of the human condition; thrilling voyages into foreign minds. They’re not so much about events that take place on the surface of the drama as they are about the characters that have to battle them. Those characters, when we meet them on page one, are never perfect. What arouses our curiosity about them, and provides them with a dramatic battle to fight, is not their achievements or their winning smile. It’s their flaws.
 
-## Human sociality
+## Sociality
 
 > Researchers such as Hood argue that modern humans have gone through a process of ‘self-domestication’. Support for the idea comes partly from the fact that, over the last 20,000 years, our brains have shrunk by between ten and fifteen per cent, the same reduction that’s been observed in all the thirty or so other animals that humans have domesticated. Just as with those creatures, our domestication means we’re tamer than our ancestors, better at reading social signals and more dependent on others.