Started reading The Sovereign Individual. It's the sort of book I'd have found unputdownable 15 years ago and now I am yawning by page 5
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Mix of that plus life-staging of interests. Big History simply isn't as relevant to the challenges of 40s as it is to 20s and even 30s.
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At 27 your future is a far stronger function of external events than at 42.
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had that same experience last week - did some "smart tech person" recommend it recently? Can't remember why it ended up on my reading list.
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It's been doing the rounds in the libertarian-techie crowd. I think this is most recent signal-boost
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do yourself a favor and keep going. Especially the beginning and the end are meaty
Should we tell the young more of what will shock them?
We can any of us try now, because Internet.
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I read it about 15 years ago. I'm a bit vague on the details now, but what sticks with me are the prognostications of neo-feudalism.
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It's boring in the start, then gets interesting suddenly and then you re-read it.








