The title is a famous African (apocryphal, attributed) proverb. That an entire person’s experiences and thoughts disappear into nothing when we shuffle our mortal coil, and it’s tantamount to the death of a library of facts and institutional knowledge and oral history. It makes Eagleman’s concept of there being 3 deaths that much more profound: … Continue reading Newsletter #0053 – “When an elder dies, a library burns to the ground”.