The Fish that ate the Whale, How wolves change rivers and my Waiteroutfit (Links 24.10.2019)

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Articles worth reading

Where Your Thoughts Go, Your Life Follows “We do a lot of thinking daily either consciously or otherwise. Experts estimate that between 50,000 and 80,000 thoughts go through our mind each day. That’s about a thought every second, and that’s even ignoring that we spend about a quarter or a third of the day sleeping. Fascinating, isn’t it?”

“Aspiring writers often find one of the biggest hurdles to building a career in the industry is getting a script acquired and put into the production line. Christopher MacQuarrie, who was writing credits on Edge of Tomorrow, Valkyrie and the Mission: Impossible franchise, shared what’s he learned in his years making movies and writing scripts.” (Twitter Thread)

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The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King (Amazon Partner Link)

“When Samuel Zemurray arrived in America in 1891, he was tall, gangly, and penniless. When he died in the grandest house in New Orleans sixty-nine years later, he was among the richest, most powerful men in the world. Working his way up from a roadside fruit peddler to conquering the United Fruit Company, Zemurray became a symbol of the best and worst of the United States: proof that America is the land of opportunity, but also a classic example of the corporate pirate who treats foreign nations as the backdrop for his adventures.”

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