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There's a related phenomenon of "post-blogging", I was introduced to the idea when post-blogged the Sudeten crisis a few years ago. The NYT did a 150-years-+ bit on the Civil War, and I've seen a few others from time to time.
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When I started at in 2014, during runs I listened to all the podcasts of the Dean's lectures from the beginning (2005). Revelatory to look backwards at change in technology/business/regulation/norms, research, and the institution.
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Every summer my dad reads magazines from the 90s and early 00s. Mostly the opinion pieces on economic outlook. It turns out that the Argentinian economy is cyclical :)
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I used to let my Economists pile up, figuring that if it seemed irrelevant by the time I got around to reading it, I never really needed to know in the first place.
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Ah, back when the Iraq war started, I started gathering support for a protest against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, using details about that "fake news" using facts we now know. It was considered too "out there" by my contemporaries
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Sometimes I love watching old advertisements or episodes of a series or random old movies no one heard of just to understand what props the producers used to depict context in that time (culture) what was trending...etc...