Most People Die Unfulfilled: Life’s Harsh Lessons

Struggle Among the States
Here’s what makes history interesting: over two hundred years, more than a dozen generations, the efforts of countless people, the span of innumerable lives—and in the end you realize most of them come to no good end, most of their endeavors fizzle out, and most leave behind nothing but a cautionary tale. #ReadingNotes
Iteration stems from relentless accumulation. Books capture that accumulated knowledge so it can actually be used, which is how we iterate and upgrade.
A family must keep iterating too—that’s achieved through one generation passing wisdom down, word and deed, to the next.