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What We KnewBook

by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

Who uses, recommends or left What We Knew, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Morgan Housel
Partner at Collaborative Fund and author of The Psychology of Money; writes essays on investor behavior.
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one of the passages that I’ve read that stuck out to me the most and stopped me dead in my tracks was from this book on World War II, as we were just saying, it’s a book called What We Knew, and it’s a book that interviews German civilians who are around during Nazi Germany.

The Tim Ferriss Show, "Morgan Housel — Contrarian Money and Writing Advice, Three Simple Goals to Guide Your Life, Journaling Prompts, Choosing the Right Game to Play, Must-Read Books, and More (#702)"; on how incentives shape what people believe. The guest's own words in the transcript Tim Ferriss published on tim.blog.

2023-11-02·tim.blog ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.