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Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces that Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave

Adam Alter

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Daniel Coyle liked it
The idea that our brains unconsciously react to tiny signals is not new. But Alter gives us a blueprint for the way it works.

on danielcoyle.com · 30 May 2014

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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.