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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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Book on tech/management almost never level up up to this level of discourse. Possibly the only one I can recall in my life is Lee Iacocca’s biography being weirdly broadly popular in the 80s. General zeitgeist discourse has no clue books like zero to one even exist.
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