May 4
Non-fiction book idea: "Short Story Long"
It takes the very short, single sentence story "I went to the store to get milk" and expands on basically every aspect of that story.
the biological mechanisms that allow you to walk
the history of urban designs and sidewalks
the history of commerce and capitalism
the history of milk consumption
the production of milk from the biological processes inside the cow to the milking, processing, and distributing
the history of credit and the complicated bureaucracy that keeps the financial system operating smoothly
and on and on
Each one of these topics could fill many books by itself. Which means that ironically this book would also have to keep a lot of long stories short or else it'll never be finished.
