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Jackson

Thomas Jackson, nicknamed “Stonewall” (1824-1863), a general of the Southern states' army in the American Civil War.

Pushing to the Front, Orison Swett Marden

Explained in

• Pushing to the Front, Orison Swett Marden
• So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, Cal Newport

  Mike Jackson, a Stanford graduate who built a career in clean technology venture capital.

• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance

  A small town in Kentucky coal country, home of the author's grandparents. Vance spent every summer there.

• Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe, Brian Greene

  Frank Jackson, an Australian philosopher. In 1982 he devised the thought experiment about Mary, who knows everything about colour but has never seen it.

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