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The Time Paradox

Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd · 1998 · 384 pages

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

Derek Sivers liked it
Profound idea that everyone has a primary time focus, either Future-focused, Present-focused, or Past-focused. Fascinating implications of each. Because I’m so future-focused, reading this book helped me understand people who are very present-focused. Also great advice on shifting your focus when needed. I read it 14 years ago, but still think about it constantly.

on sive.rs · 3 Apr 2009

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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.