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He first saw “work sets you free” welded onto cold metal behind museum glass—preserved proof of a neat lie used to dress industrial cruelty as virtue. Weeks later he caught himself repeating the phrase during a brutal night of shifts and studying, and the shame hit: same words, two universes. So he rewired it into a private rule with conditions: work frees you only when it’s chosen and it buys back your time—building options, not chains. Read how that ended for him
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On the morning of 25 April 1974, Portugal pulled off something rare in modern history: a regime change that’s remembered less for bloodshed and more for… flowers. Not metaphorical flowers. Actual carnations—tucked into rifle barrels by civilians greeting soldiers in the streets. It’s the kind of detail that sounds like a screenplay gimmick until you realize it happened, and it worked.