Long Read: Stuck

Amy Reardon | 37 minutes

No clear genetic origin has been found for stuttering, and neither have emotional origins like trauma been ruled out. Still there is no cure. Some techniques work for some stutterers, some of the time. A hundred years ago doctors tried cutting out portions of the tongues of stutterers, killing and maiming many, curing none.

Snippets

If we're all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well. What does it mean to disagree well?

- Paul Graham, How to Disagree

From Amazon’s start in only books, to Tesla starting at the Roadster, if you examine the path of almost every new company who breaks through monopoly power, they follow a similar path.

- Jeff Booth, The Greatest Game

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