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Meditations for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman

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Caitlin Dickerson recommends it
The last book that I'm going to recommend is Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. So, I don't know about you, but to get through the last few years, meditation has been really critical for me. And I've read a million books about it, but this one is just incredibly accessible.

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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.