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Who uses, recommends or left The Life Goals of Dead People, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
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I won't summarize it - it's only a few minutes read. But I often catch myself being a dead person, and having a term for it has noticably improved my life.
His standing "Reads that lasted" page — books and essays that had a lasting impact on him. The page carries no visible date; 2026-08-20 is its Last-Modified header.
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
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