Tim Urban

It's a boring book.

So 950 pages, 95% of the book, hunter-gatherers kind of doing their thing.

I'm sure there's, you know, there's some, there's obviously some major cognitive and advancements along the way and language.

And I'm sure, you know, the bone arrow comes around at some point, you know, so tiny things, but it's like, okay, now we have 400 pages till the next thing.

But then you get to page 950 and things start moving.

Yeah, 25 pages of actual recorded history.

So when we think of prehistoric, we're talking about pages one through 975 of the book.

And then history is page 976 to 1000.

If you were reading the book, it would be like epilogue AD, the last little 10 pages of the book.

And we think of AD as super long, right?

2,000 years.

The Roman Empire, 2,000 years ago.

Like, that's so long.

Yeah.

Human history has been going on for over 2,000 centuries.

Like, that is, it's just, it's hard to wrap your head around.

And this is, I mean, even that's just the end of a very long road.

Like, you know, the 100,000 years before that, it's not like, you know, it's not like that was that different.

So it's just, there's been people like us that have emotions like us, that have physical sensations like us, right?

for so, so long.