If you leave that conversation for too long, you’ll lose momentum.

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3. There’s no single right way to start writing. Some people write at 2 a.m., others jot notes on their phones in waiting rooms or on the bus. What matters is finding small, intentional, and repeatable ways to stay in conversation with your ideas.

2. Consistency beats intensity. A steady, sustainable writing habit—thirty minutes a day or one hour two times a week, or whatever works for you—will get you farther than the occasional all-nighter.

1. “Start before you feel ready. Stop before you feel done” (Boice). Don’t wait for perfect clarity or inspiration—the act of writing creates the conditions for achieving clarity and creativity.

If we turn every educational institution into an engine for technical proficiency, market outcomes and profit, we’ll end up a society of technicians without spirit, heart, or a sense of our history (to paraphrase Weber).

All this knowledge would be lost without historians, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars doing this work in universities.

Wealthier families, by contrast, could shut the door to a study and plot in private.

But this dynamic hit working-class families hardest. Living in small, often one- or two-room homes, sometimes multigenerational, their children could easily overhear parents’ conversations.

(children who were pressured and manipulated, of course).

Another striking point: the connection between class, surveillance, and persecution. As some families planned their escape, the Nazis often obtained information from teachers—either pressured or sympathetic—who relayed what children said they’d overheard at home

But much of the street-level violence came from socially displaced young men—some of them war veterans, carrying trauma, scars, and a learned comfort with aggression—who filled the ranks of the SS. The party didn’t entirely intend it; and it was easier to just let them do it than try to rein them in

At one point, the Nazis were effectively threatening people into voting for them because they wanted democratic legitimacy (the irony).

This one dives into some of the historiography of those first few months after Hitler took power. Apparently, some historians argue that parts of the early Nazi violence were more happenstance than plan—not entirely intended, at least not at the scale it later reached.

which is far more than the four-year total cost of even the most expensive US colleges.”

“The average difference in earnings between a person with a four-year college degree and a person with the next highest degree, an associates degree, is about $20,000 a year. Multiplying that by the 40 years of a typical work career yields a lifetime earnings gain of about $800,000,

Worse, the bold proposal that social media is to blame might distract us from effectively responding to the real causes of the current mental-health crisis in young people."

h/t Dan Hirschman

Second, the book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science.