Many who don’t understand that life today is much better than in the past don’t know how bad the past was. Many who don’t believe that the future can be much, much better don’t know how bad the present is.
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This is why, as someone whose job is (at least partially) to predict the future, I read so much history.
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I worked at a bio lab once and a researcher there said one of the most helpful ways of finding ideas was exploring research papers from the 1930s
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Wait, people are paying to predict the future? That's literally a job???
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Yes, the job is called "investor."
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What are your thoughts on Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel? Would you recommend it?
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I would read Cipolla's Guns, Sails & Empires and McNeill's Plagues and Peoples.
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What are your favorite history books that are not well know to most people?
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awful indeed.
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