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Lessons From Reading 100 Articles on World History in a Year
Nothing ever changes
I read 100 articles on world history last year. I averaged two articles per week. It was a challenge and a personal project I’d wanted to tackle for years. In 2024, I decided it was the right time, and I’m glad to report I succeeded.”
To clarify, by ‘world history,’ I mean I read personal essays published on the Internet by random people I have never met. I read about the lives of bloggers.
Because who’s making history if not us?
I chose people from different cities, countries, and backgrounds to get a broader perspective. What I learned didn’t surprise me. Goethe said it better than I could. Here’s a quote from memory.
Humanity always moves forward, but the individual human remains the same.
We think we will live forever
For all our technological progress, we still start as babies and end up as old people.
Private companies offer to store our placentas in hopes of future medical advances that could use their cells to cure diseases.
People have arranged for their bodies to be frozen and kept for a future hypothetical revival for more than 50 years. Securing a…
