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A Mind-Expanding Conversation About Human History and Happiness With Tim Urban

A Mind-Expanding Conversation About Human History and Happiness With Tim Urban

If you, like myself, have loved and devoured those ultralong Wait Buy Why explainers in the past, you might have noticed it’s been quiet for a while. It’s because Tim Urban has been writing a book, which is out now. This is an interesting conversation about one of the key ideas from the book — looking at human history as a hypothetical 1000-page-book.


From Weekly Filet #435, in March 2023.

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