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You Cannot Have Everything: A Philosophical Case for Constraint

The reason you can't have everything is also the reason anything exists at all. Read the opening for free.

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Chris Chai

"Finitude is not the world's defect. It is the condition under which everything you value became possible."

What's included in the Community Edition

— Preface: How This Book Came to Be

— Chapter One: You Already Know This

— Full table of contents

About the Community Edition

This edition contains the Preface and Chapter One of You Cannot Have Everything. It is free. All you need is an email address.