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The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich · 2015

Recommended by 3 people on the record.

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

Andrew Batson liked it
Not every plank in his argument is convincing, and the research has evolved since the book first came out a decade ago, but the ambition is impressive and the framework holds up.

on andrewbatson.com · 16 Dec 2025 · Report

William MacAskill loved it
One partly just cause it's such a great book. It's like the best popular nonfiction I've read or among that, is 'The Secret of Our Success' by Joseph Henrich, which is about cultural evolution

on a podcast · 24 Jan 2020 · 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.