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I put off a book for 15 years and finished it before lunch. The notebook it came out of had been filling since 2013, which is the whole point: Johan Cruyff's academy, a bankrupt royalist's letters about clover, and a Vanderbilt grandson who kept every dollar all run the same pattern at different speeds.

Featuring: Johan Cruyff, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Guan Zhong, Samuel Hartlib

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Chapters:

(00:00) Guan Zhong on planting for a hundred years
(00:11) A book finished 15 years after it started
(00:34) Cruyff's academy produces the world's top three
(01:02) Richard Weston's letters on Flemish crop rotation
(01:39) Norfolk's wheat yields climb over 150 years
(02:00) A Vanderbilt grandson inherits and finds nothing to seek
(02:30) What the next day inherits

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