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Eiichiro Oda is a relentlessly obsessive creative genius who has devoted nearly every waking hour of his adult life to building one of the most extraordinary fictional universes ever imagined.

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What I learned from reading Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard

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What I learned from reading The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy by Charles R. Morris.

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What I learned from reading Ari Emanuel's incredible autobiography Roll The Calls.

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What I learned from reading Mark: A journey to the heart of history's largest nonterritorial empire by Jeremy Stern.

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0:00 — "For these, I set no bounds in space or time. I have given empire without end." — Latin verse from the Aeneid, recalled by Mark Zuckerberg

2:55 — "Carthage must be destroyed." — Mark Zuckerberg on Google

2:59 — Sean Parker observed "this kind of imperial tendency" in Mark.

3:35 — "Either a Caesar or nothing." (Zuckerberg's shirt)

4:25 — "What is it like to be one of the most powerful men in human history, who, by age 42 has secured a place in the books that'll be written about his era for centuries after his death?"

4:55 — "People call him arrogant. He's not. But time after time, his arrogance just turns into truth."

7:25 — "One day they will be out of office and eventually dead, while Zuckerberg, whose majority control of Meta's voting power makes his removal effectively impossible, could in fifty years still be ruler of his empire."

8:05 — "The more power a man acquires, the more his empire expands, the more he depends on other people for information about everything from his own court to the furthest reaches of the empire." (The Dictator's Dilemma)

14:15 — "I think we all have a void in our lives, and the lucky ones find something that fills that space to make us more optimal, to make us a better human being. Mark filled the void with fighting." — Zuckerberg's MMA coach

16:40 — "There have been too many things that I've tried to build and then have been told, 'Nah, you can't really build that,' by the platform provider. At some level, I'm just like, 'Nah, fuck that.'" — Mark Zuckerberg

18:05 — "Meta's capital expenditure this year will exceed the military budget of every country on Earth except the United States, China, and Russia."

18:15 — "This is how it is for him; there is no stopping. He is not like the others of his vintage, who all at some point abdicate, or sell, or are overthrown."

20:15 — "I'm never going to stop." — Mark Zuckerberg

31:15 — "Mark is the fucking Terminator. He's actually not an asshole. He's not a miserable fuck. His source of advantage is he's never happy. He just doesn't fucking stop." — A researcher at a competing AI lab, who formerly worked at Meta

39:55 — "This is who I am. I love this. I didn't set out to build a company. I just love building things." — Mark Zuckerberg

40:35 — "You can't take this away from him. He wouldn't be him if he stopped."