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The Elephant in the Brain

Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler

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

Nat Eliason loved it
A phenomenal book on understanding your own "hidden motivations in everyday life" and why we do what we do. Widely applicable to all parts of life, and the kind of explanations you can't stop thinking about after reading.

on nateliason.com · 7 Feb 2020

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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.