Kyle Harrison
to-read
A Short History of Progress
- Author
- Ronald Wright
- Published
- 2004
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Ronald Wright’s short history of human progress — how civilisations have advanced, and what their own advances have cost them.
Where I heard about it
- Matt Mullenweg — bolded it on his “29 Books in 2019” list (ma.tt, January 2020) as one he particularly enjoyed or found himself discussing; I tagged it in August 2020. See 29 Books in 2019 (Matt Mullenweg).