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How to Invent Everything: Ryan North

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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How to Rebuild Civilization With a Time Machine

"I wanted to write a manual for rebuilding civilization if you had a time machine," he says. He was inspired by airplane safety manuals where they go over this horrible thing and make it seem almost boring. "After writing a little bit, I was like, OK, it's not impossible. It's just really, really hard."

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