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Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

Barbara Ehrenreich

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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 loved it
This is a brilliant political polemic and a critique of the problematic effects of positive thinking.

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.