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Man spends his entire life on something, and the world forgets. But then remembers. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Bill Murphy Jr.
Apr 5, 2021
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The playwright George Bernard Shaw famously wrote:

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

On the occasion of what would have been his 328th birthday, let’s talk about an extremely unreasonable man: John Harrison, inven…

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