This isn't as good as The Hard Thing About Hard Things, so read that first if you haven't. That said, it's a creative way to reinvent the business case study – lesson structure of business books by talking about the leader of a prison gang, Genghis Khan, and Toussaint Louverture instead of your usual companies. There's some good lessons in here, but probably could have been a long form essay.
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.
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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.