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Tom Chatfield

British writer on technology and critical thinking; author of a dozen books including Critical Thinking (2017) and Wise Animals (2024); writes the newsletter How To Think.

3 books on the record · 15 Mar 2010 – 24 Apr 2024

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

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A Theory of Fun by Raph Koster

The reason I like A Theory of Fun is that it’s by a professional games designer, one who was responsible for the first MMO (Ultima Online in 1997).

on fivebooks.com · 15 Mar 2010 · Report

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Play Money by Julian Dibbell

Play Money was written by an American author called Julian Dibbell, who decided he was going to spend a year trying to earn enough money to live off purely by trading in virtual goods.

on fivebooks.com · 15 Mar 2010 · 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.