I’ve met Andy Warner and talked to him and he’s an interesting guy. A lot of his work is about more ordinary everyday life things but even when it is he uses that to highlight larger systemic issues - like he wrote a book about the weird histories of random things but in following those stories he found that a lot of the inventors of those things happened to be women, and faced a lot of challenges in being taken seriously for their work, and he really makes an effort to include that part of the story, without detracting from the funny/unexpected/odd aspect of the book. Very cool.
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