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Have you ever worked hard on a project at school or at work and

we're very proud of it? You felt good about what you had done. And then someone else, a friend of yours even, shows up with a project that just totally blows yours out of the water. Makes you look like an amateur. You can't really be mad at them, they just did a good job and a better job than you. You want to be mad at them maybe, but you admire what they created and hopefully will take a lesson from it to try and make something better next time. I mean that's never happened to me. I'm spectacular in everything I ever do. However, on an entirely unrelated note, recently I've been re-listening to Mike Duncan's

Revolution's podcast.

Currently, he's been covering the Russian Revolution, which is fascinating. I recommend a listen, but I decided to go back and

listen to some older episodes. For example, I went back and listened to the first episode

about the Central American revolutions.

His introductory episode on that topic goes back to cover the entire history of the Spanish

Empire in the New World in about 20 minutes. 20 minutes to cover

something that took me at best three or four episodes and that I still don't feel I have

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