The success of Mr Lanchester's book suggests that other books on the crisis may be either too big or too obsessed with the personalities of individual bankers.

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This is perfect if your love of 'Twin Peaks' has connected you with people who are probably a little too obsessed with the death of Laura Palmer.

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Rick Bullotta, co-founder of ThingWorx, just wrote a poignant blog ( Doing Things That Matter) exposing the dangers of being too obsessed with Silicon Valley fashions that treasure technology for its own sake.

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Despite the fabled fact that 25% of Nerdistan programmers are ethnically Asian, the truth is they work in the main for U.S. companies, and America remains too obsessed about its own emerging market to give major consideration to Asia.

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The couple planned a move to Nevada because they decided the Valley had become too money-obsessed.

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Far too many investors become obsessed with what their neighbors, friends, or highly visible benchmarks are doing, and so tend to lose sight of their own big picture.

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They tend to stay obsessed with the present, often losing out by spending too much time tinkering with business models that are perishable by nature.

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Travis says one of the best things about both bands is that neither takes themselves too seriously - a breath of fresh air in a hit-obsessed climate.

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Borrowers get too easy a ride: not all of them were unsophisticated types, duped by commission-obsessed brokers.

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