<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>krush.blog</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/</link><description>Book essays, notes and carefully checked ideas from reading.</description><language>en</language><item><title>Bataille: Breaking a Rule Does Not Necessarily Free You from It</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/batai-zaborona-i-transhresiia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/batai-zaborona-i-transhresiia/</guid><description>Why transgression can depend on a prohibition, how it differs from abolishing a rule, and where Bataille limits his own claims about fear and desire.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Castro: If the People Are Already Unanimous, Why Hold Elections?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/castro-political-faith-limits-of-power/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/castro-political-faith-limits-of-power/</guid><description>How support for a leader becomes an argument against dissent in Zanatta’s Castro biography—and why the biographer’s own framework also needs scrutiny.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Collins: Corporate “Greatness” Needs a Measure and a Date</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/collins-kryterii-velychi/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/collins-kryterii-velychi/</guid><description>How Collins selected his great companies, what comparison contributes, and why historical financial success does not guarantee future resilience.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Franco: Laws That Do Not Constrain the Dictator</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/franco-dictator-authority-system/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/franco-dictator-authority-system/</guid><description>How offices, statutes and multiple signatures can formalise personal rule—and why a successor cannot simply inherit a leader’s exceptional status.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A Can of Peas, an FBI Agent and the Limits of the “Friendship Formula”</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/schafer-formula-ne-kalkuliator/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/schafer-formula-ne-kalkuliator/</guid><description>What Schafer and Karlins’s four components reveal about contact—and why successful recruitment does not establish reciprocity in friendship.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Taschner: What Did the Computer Check in the “Proof of God”?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/taschner-vira-i-ese/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/taschner-vira-i-ese/</guid><description>What theorem provers checked in Gödel’s argument, why Scott’s variant matters, and why a valid deduction does not establish its starting assumptions.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:51:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>De Gaulle: One Appeal, Different Calendars</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/de-gaulle-zaklyk-i-audytoriia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/de-gaulle-zaklyk-i-audytoriia/</guid><description>The 18 June broadcast, Moch’s news two days later and the recording of 22 June are different moments. Reading Phan across the gap between an event and its memory.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:55:53 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Turunen: Rituals Have a Job to Do</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/oznaky-rytual-i-zavershennia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/oznaky-rytual-i-zavershennia/</guid><description>Finishing work and publicly recognising its completion are different tasks. Turunen helps explain ceremony without promising control over luck.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:55:53 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Reagan: The Work Hidden by ‘Charisma’</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/reagan-radio-prysutnist-bez-stadionu/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/reagan-radio-prysutnist-bez-stadionu/</guid><description>Telegraph reports, a missed advertisement and a speech built from earlier performances. Eliot reveals labour and working conditions behind an apparently natural public voice.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:55:53 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>@War: One Citation Does Not Verify the Whole Story</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/harris-anonimnist-i-perevirka/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/harris-anonimnist-i-perevirka/</guid><description>A Google post, an anonymous interview and an inference about a secret technology support different parts of the story.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:49:25 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Schipper: Their Clothes, Your Assumptions</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/holi-chy-pokryti-chomu-oholenist-ne-maie-universalnoi-miry/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/holi-chy-pokryti-chomu-oholenist-ne-maie-universalnoi-miry/</guid><description>A silent stranger at a bus stop, conflicting rules of exposure and a missing axe. Schipper offers a reason to question what observers add to another person’s appearance.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:49:25 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Shelest: What the Word ‘Merely’ Conceals</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/shelest-podviina-loialnist/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/shelest-podviina-loialnist/</guid><description>Shelest helps artists without securing a right to dissent. Reading Shapoval without confusing patronage, freedom and political disgrace.</description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:49:25 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Graham: Investment Formulas Have a Shelf Life Too</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/intelligent-investor-nazva-i-operatsiia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/intelligent-investor-nazva-i-operatsiia/</guid><description>Graham admits his formula stopped working and his warning about bonds was inadequate. Reading the classic without confusing a principle with a ready-made recipe.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:38:34 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Things and People: Distressed Denim Is Not a Shared History</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/rechi-liudy-znoshennia-i-blizkist/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/rechi-liudy-znoshennia-i-blizkist/</guid><description>A factory can distress denim, but cannot add your life to it. Schivelbusch separates the cost of replacing a function from the attachment that develops through use.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:38:34 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Voss: The Right to Say No—or Another Way to Extract a Yes?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/voss-tak-ne-domovlenist/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/voss-tak-ne-domovlenist/</guid><description>A question can make room for refusal or build in the required answer. What to take from Voss on constraints and implementation—and where to temper the book’s confidence.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:38:34 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Johnson’s Churchill: A Compelling Story Is Not Yet Evidence</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/churchill-factor-posada-i-pidtrymka/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/churchill-factor-posada-i-pidtrymka/</guid><description>Johnson shows the weight of an individual decision, then asks us to believe more. Separating political action, a world without the hero and an unverified story.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:42:59 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Creativity, Inc.: The Feedback Can Be Right and the Fix Wrong</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/koli-vidhuk-zapizniuietsia-creativity-inc/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/koli-vidhuk-zapizniuietsia-creativity-inc/</guid><description>Brad Bird fixed a scene without changing its dialogue. What it reveals about the Braintrust: naming problems, choosing remedies and remaining accountable for progress.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:42:59 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Zero to One: A Unique Restaurant Still Has Competitors</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/zero-one-kanal-i-produkt/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/zero-one-kanal-i-produkt/</guid><description>The absence of an exact duplicate does not remove substitutes. Thiel’s test of a market niche, separated from his broader defence of monopoly and read alongside later evidence.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:42:59 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Ford Calls the Worker a Partner. Who Sets the Terms?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/henri-ford-pro-zarplatu-de-zakinchuietsia-partnerstvo/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/henri-ford-pro-zarplatu-de-zakinchuietsia-partnerstvo/</guid><description>Ford’s case for good pay sits beside output targets and an early supplement tied to private life. Why mutual dependency does not yet mean shared authority.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:20:08 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Blank and Dorf: From ‘I Like It’ to a Paid Deal</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/startup-manual-plan-i-hipotezy/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/startup-manual-plan-i-hipotezy/</guid><description>User interest, a budget and purchasing authority are different things. How Blank and Dorf test the path to a deal—and why a first order does not prove the model.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:20:08 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Start-up Nation: Who Gets an Invention to Its Buyer?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/startup-nation-bird-zviazky-z-rynkom/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/startup-nation-bird-zviazky-z-rynkom/</guid><description>BIRD finds a partner; Yozma helps develop venture-capital support. A historical look at the work missing between a good technology and a sale.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 05:20:08 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Chip War: A Factory Is Not Technological Independence</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/chip-war-spetsializatsiia-lantsiuhy-chypiv-ua/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/chip-war-spetsializatsiia-lantsiuhy-chypiv-ua/</guid><description>TSMC opened the door to new chip designers while concentrating manufacturing. Four chapters from Miller, with a check of critical dependencies against ASML’s report.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:43:47 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>$100M Offers: Change the Service, Not Just the Sales Pitch</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/vid-rezultatu-do-propozytsii-100m-offers/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/vid-rezultatu-do-propozytsii-100m-offers/</guid><description>A guide for a client who eats out reveals Hormozi’s most useful idea: redesign the service, not just the answer to an objection. A three-chapter reading route.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:43:47 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Fried Green Tomatoes: Memory Passed On with the Recipes</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/whistle-stop-data-spohad/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/whistle-stop-data-spohad/</guid><description>News items, a broom in a tree and recipes make an unfamiliar town intimate. How Flagg passes on memory—and why the café’s warmth is not the same as equality.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:43:47 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Adam Smith: Skill Needs a Market</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/wealth-nations-spetsializatsiia-i-zbut/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/wealth-nations-spetsializatsiia-i-zbut/</guid><description>Better skills do not create buyers by themselves. Smith’s argument about specialisation begins with the market a producer can actually reach.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>A Big Problem Needs a Smaller Research Question</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/analityka-problema-i-pytannia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/analityka-problema-i-pytannia/</guid><description>A worthwhile subject can hide an impossible assignment. A Ukrainian policy-analysis handbook shows how to ask a question you can actually answer.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Bellingcat: A Video Caption Does Not Establish Its Location</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/bellingcat-video-i-oznaky/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/bellingcat-video-i-oznaky/</guid><description>A challenge from a commenter sends Eliot Higgins back to the evidence. The Brega episode shows how verification changes the claim you can responsibly make.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Gaiman’s Boys Can Start a Conversation. Can They Hear the Answer?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/gaiman-rozmova-bez-slukhannia/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/gaiman-rozmova-bez-slukhannia/</guid><description>At an unfamiliar party, Enn knows what he wants to hear. Gaiman’s short story explores what that expectation prevents him from understanding.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Skunk Works: Who Gets to Say No?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/skunk-works-avtonomiia-sekretnist/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/skunk-works-avtonomiia-sekretnist/</guid><description>An autonomous team needs more than freedom to execute. Ben Rich’s memoir connects the right to reject a project with bounded risk and access to resources.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Lilies: Care Begins Before the Purchase</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/shuster-buket-i-neobkhidne/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/shuster-buket-i-neobkhidne/</guid><description>Tara Schuster’s most useful question concerns regular attention to needs. The distinction between an affordable expense and guilt matters more than the flowers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Felix Austria: When Devotion Leaves No Freedom</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/felix-avstria-sluzhba-i-nalezhnist/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/felix-avstria-sluzhba-i-nalezhnist/</guid><description>Stefa is indispensable to another household’s comfort. Andrukhovych’s novel asks what that role costs, and whether being needed means being free.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>The Third Door: Access Is Not a Career</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/the-third-door-u-2026-istorii-nadykhaiut-ale-chy-varto-chytaty-vsi-300-storinok/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/the-third-door-u-2026-istorii-nadykhaiut-ale-chy-varto-chytaty-vsi-300-storinok/</guid><description>Banayan’s memoir is strongest when it reveals the money, allies and preparation behind access. Its adventure does not establish a formula for success.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Darkness: Seeing Trouble Is Not Enough</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/ia-bachu-vas-tsikavyt-pitma-ohliad-romanu-illariona-pavliuka-book-203/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/ia-bachu-vas-tsikavyt-pitma-ohliad-romanu-illariona-pavliuka-book-203/</guid><description>Pavliuk’s thriller asks why obvious distress fails to prompt action, and why the investigator has ways to retreat of his own.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Write!: When Preparation Replaces Writing</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/pokrokovyi-hid-dlia-maibutnikh-avtoriv-pyshy/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/pokrokovyi-hid-dlia-maibutnikh-avtoriv-pyshy/</guid><description>Planning can feel productive while a manuscript stays untouched. Tais Zolotkovska offers a useful test: what changed in the text itself?</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>100,000 Words About Love: Four Ways Beyond the Clichés</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/100-tysiach-sliv-pro-liubov-vkliuchaiuchy-vyhuky-book-6/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/100-tysiach-sliv-pro-liubov-vkliuchaiuchy-vyhuky-book-6/</guid><description>An anthology can test a familiar word rather than celebrate it. Four Ukrainian texts move from linguistic play to care, control and prayer.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Genesis: Who Answers for an AI Decision?</title><link>https://krush.blog/en/posts/genesis-khto-vyznachatyme-tsili-shi/</link><guid>https://krush.blog/en/posts/genesis-khto-vyznachatyme-tsili-shi/</guid><description>An assistant that orders a certificate and a system that decides eligibility require different kinds of trust. Genesis helps frame the difference.</description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:28:17 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>