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That Used to Be Us

Tom Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

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

Bill Gates recommends it
The book has a valuable message and I recommend it, although there are some things I wish the authors had clarified.

on gatesnotes.com · 27 Feb 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.