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It was actually the historian Peter Turchin who first got me to believe that social unrest is a macro variable — something big that happens to a whole society at once, and whose effects trickle down into almost every nook and cranny of the nation.

The Chaos Has Arrived

Noah Smith

In Tim Hartford’s book [*Messy*](https://amzn.to/41QvjDF), he found in his research that the top scientists tend to switch topics frequently: “Over the course of their first hundred published papers, the long-lived high-impact researchers switched topics an average of *forty-three times*.”

Productive Disorder: The Hidden Power of Chaos, Noise, and Randomness

Tiago Forte

Then we’d take an hour and a half to cover our agenda, usually with portions of my team in the room.

Don’t Make Board Decks

Luke Kanies

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