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  "content_md": "Lots going on in this piece. But the below excerpt seems particularly causative of the majority.\n\n> “My ideological framework had been, ‘What’s the next step? How do I make my gaming PC better? How do I upgrade it?’” he told me. “But then I just had this light bulb moment where I said, ‘Next step doesn’t matter. What’s the last step?’ And that flipped my thinking upside down, because it allowed me to think in just a totally different way about the problem.\n\n[Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan - Tablet Magazine ↗](https://tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril)",
  "content_html": "<p>Lots going on in this piece. But the below excerpt seems particularly causative of the majority.</p>\n<blockquote><p>“My ideological framework had been, ‘What’s the next step? How do I make my gaming PC better? How do I upgrade it?’” he told me. “But then I just had this light bulb moment where I said, ‘Next step doesn’t matter. What’s the last step?’ And that flipped my thinking upside down, because it allowed me to think in just a totally different way about the problem.</p></blockquote>\n<p class=\"source\"><a href=\"https://tabletmag.com/feature/american-vulcan-palmer-luckey-anduril\">Palmer Luckey, American Vulcan - Tablet Magazine ↗</a></p>",
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