Keith Gessen From the start of his administration, President Barack Obama had tried to lower tensions with Russia and refocus American attention on a rising China; he had made clear he wanted no part in the problems of the post-Soviet periphery. – Keith Gessen Administration Quotes American Quotes Attention Quotes Barack Quotes China Quotes Obama Quotes Periphery Quotes Postsoviet Quotes President Quotes Refocus Quotes Rising Quotes Russia Quotes Start Quotes Tensions Quotes During two decades, on and off, reporting in Russia and the post-Soviet states – in the turbulent ’90s, the wealthy but depressing aughts and, finally, during the eruption of violence in Ukraine – I occasionally heard people talk about how ‘the Americans’ wanted this or that political outcome. All literature has this moral strain, but in Russian literature, it’s particularly sharp.
Dominic Cummings Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of ‘the educated classes’ in general, tended to hold a broadly ‘blank slate’ view of the world mostly uninformed by decades of scientific progress. – Dominic Cummings
Eric Ries The reality is the Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean startups waste less money, because they use a disciplined approach to testing new products and ideas. – Eric Ries
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