The scale of history is huge, the timeframe is long, and the measurements are often intentionally corrupted. After all, history is written by the winners, can be influenced by many factors, and needs to be verified. This verification comes through the analysis of historiography, which is the study of historical recordkeeping.

It is important to look at history to understand these trajectories because history is a cryptic epic of twisting trajectories →

1) Cryptic because narrators are unreliable and often intentionally misleading

2) Epic because the timescales are so long that you have to consciously sample beyond your own experience and any human lifetime to see patterns

3) Twisting because there are curves, cycles, collapses, and non-straight patterns

4) Trajectories because history is ultimately about the time evolution of human beings

• How then, can one analyze the scope of history?


• As information becomes more available, what is the purpose of history?


• How do we hold nationstates accountable, using micro history?


• Why is denominating value so important?


• What do history and the stock market have in common?


• When we look at things beyond our own understanding, our own timeline - what infrastructure is being used?


• Why do we look at patterns in the first place?

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