The 999 Pages of Human History

"I think your ability to frame stuff is like your superpower," he says. "If you wrote all of human history into a thousand page book, each page covering 250 years, then what does that look like? And the answer is that almost the whole 950 pages of that book are hunter-gatherers everywhere." The industrial revolution started on page 1000 and has been accelerating paradigm shifts ever since. 'We often like assume that if we're living in a special time, that must be naive because everyone thinks that'

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