The Pattern of Progress
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The Pattern of Progress
| Full title | The Pattern of Progress: How radically cheaper, easier, faster, better technologies and ideas rapidly change the world |
|---|---|
| Author | Bradd Libby |
| Published | 2024 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A RethinkX-published study of roughly 1,500 historical inflection points, arguing that adoption curves for radically cheaper technologies repeat a common shape — the disruption-curve argument applied to the historical record rather than to a forecast. |
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
About this edition
The reply named only “The Pattern of Progress.” I’ve read it as Bradd Libby’s RethinkX book rather than Donald Kubelka’s self-help title of the same name, on the strength of the thread’s subject — treat the identification as provisional.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Progress · Technological Innovation — the subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.