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I’d argue the chatterati class fragmented into multiple discourse currents around 2007. Kinda like cable explosion in 80s. For eg: Piketty = HBO Sapiens = MTV etc. I count a dozen “channel scale” books. I’m waiting for the Comedy Central/Cartoon Network book tbh.
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These seem tech specific. Maybe tech is the ESPN bundle. I’d say the generic ones are: Piketty Sapiens Sovereign Individual Hillbilly Elegy Vaclav Smil Debt Maybe Moses Naim Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow Each started a specific conversation
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I think of this class of books as “books busy fortune 100 CEOs like to pretend they’ve read for Davos and make cringe clueless approving comments about, for signaling purposes, regardless of merit” Sapiens wins the top prize imo
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