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The Explorer's Gene

Alex Hutchinson

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Steve Magness loved it
What Hutchinson argues is that our lives are more productive, more meaningful, and more fun when we sometimes ditch the maps and find our own way. It’s a kind of love letter for trying new things and sometimes getting a bit lost.

on stevemagness.org · 13 Dec 2025 · Report

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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.