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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America

Scott Sandage

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

Oliver Burkeman recommends it
This is an historical account of changing attitudes towards failure. Sandage takes American culture as his focus, although I think his insights apply far beyond that.

on fivebooks.com · 12 Jul 2012

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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.