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The Lessons of History

Will Durant and Ariel Durant · 1968

Recommended by 2 people on the record.

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

Balaji Srinivasan recommends it
Foundation, The Lessons of History, Unqualified Reservations, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Selfish Gene, Albion's Seed, War and Peace and War, Stalin's War, Energy and Civilization, Who We Are and How We Got Here, The Ancient City, The Fourth Turning, The Grey Lady Winked

on balajis.com · 2 Feb 2025

Lyn Alden recommends it affiliate
It’s not an investing book, but The Lessons of History is one of the most important books for long-term investors to read, in my opinion.

on lynalden.com · 30 Jan 2019

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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.