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How We Disappear

by Thomas Mullaney

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Book of the Day, NPR · September 1, 2026

'How We Disappear' is a Stanford historian's take on our personal archives

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A personal and academic history of information, exploring the archives we leave behind after death, the concept of 'original order' used by historians, and why the accumulation of our personal papers, documents, and objects is ultimately a story about entropy.

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