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Don't Think of An Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate

George Lakoff

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

Will Larson loved it
While written from a political perspective that some might find challenging, this book completely changed how I think about presenting ideas. You may be tempted to instead read his more academic writing, but I'd recommend reading this first as it's much briefer and more readable.

on lethain.com · 24 Jul 2018

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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.