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Microadventures

Alastair Humphreys

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

Jamie Brandon liked it
This book congealed for me the idea that adventure is more an attitude or a habit than a circumstance. I'd experienced that before, especially in the parkour scene in London, but always in narrow contexts. Alastair convinced me to treat my whole life the same way.

on scattered-thoughts.net

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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.