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Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

David Eagleman · 2008 · 121 pages

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

Derek Sivers loved it
Awesomely creative think-piece. 40 very short fictional stories about what happens when you die. The framework is inspiring for anyone: coming up with 40 different answers to any one question. But they’re also just brilliant ideas and powerful little fables. I just read it a 2nd time and love it even more now.

on sive.rs · 27 Sep 2017

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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.