“the last one I was going to mention has nothing to do with data science or anything it's it's called 4,000 weeks”
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Four Thousand Weeks
By Oliver Burkeman
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“another book that I read recently which has nothing to do with marketing at all but was like really nice was four thousand weeks”
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