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Anatomy of a Breakthrough

Adam Alter · 2023

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

David Epstein liked it
NYU psychologist Adam Alter is this week’s Q&A subject, and I took so many notes in his new book, Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most, as to obliterate the margins.

on davidepstein.substack.com · 18 May 2023 · Report

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.