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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2725 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski intermittent book thread

There's this style of history pedagogy whereby rather than go through it chronologically, you go through the culture chronologically then the art chronologically then the religion chronologically etc etc etc so you end up hearing the same names over and over again. I bitched about it here

but it makes a lot of sense when you're blowing through a thousand pages covering 100 years.

I'm listening at 1.8x.