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Nov 2023
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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You stare, mouth agape, at the bookstore display. It’s a self-help book, but with curse words in the title?! This must be a revolutionary new framework, not simply the same dull, reactionary ideas repackaged as hip and new.

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