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		<title>5 Modern Midnight Library Stories About Regret, AI, and Choice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;The Midnight Library asks what might happen if we could visit the lives we did not choose.These five modern stories push that question further.What happens when we no longer need a magical library?What happens when social media lets us watch old loves from a distance, when career data predicts which path is safer, when parents [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>5 Modern Siddhartha Stories About Wisdom, Love, AI, and Choice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction&#160;Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha asks whether wisdom can truly be taught.&#160;More than a century later, that question may feel even more urgent.&#160;We now live surrounded by advice.&#160;Experts tell us how to choose careers, relationships, diets, investments, identities, and spiritual practices. Therapy gives us language for patterns our parents could not name. Self-help gives us frameworks. Social [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Influence Explained: Robert Cialdini’s Persuasion Playbook</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Robert Cialdini explored Influence with the mentors he most respected—testing where persuasion ends and manipulation begins?Introduction by Robert CialdiniInfluence Explained is my invitation to slow down and notice something humbling: most of the time we don’t choose with pure deliberation—we choose with cues. Not because we’re careless, but because the world is loud, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Thinking Fast and Slow Summary: Daniel Kahneman System 1 &#038; 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick Sasaki]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What if Daniel Kahneman sat with you and pinpointed the exact moment your mind lies?Introduction by Nick SasakiThinking Fast and Slow summary: Most of us walk through life believing we’re the author of our decisions. We say “I decided,” “I knew,” “I chose,” as if a single, steady self is sitting behind our eyes, calmly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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