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The Book Every Curious Person Should Own

The world is a much better place than you think. 25 great facts about the world. Reviewing my latest book purchase, “Beautiful News” by David McCandless.

Attila Vágó
8 min readAug 16, 2023
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This is why I need inspiring people in my life. Tale as old as time. Guy sends a book recommendation to his friend. She loves it, digs deeper and discovers there’s a new edition, and lets the guy know. Guy buys the book, writes about it, y’all read the review, buy it as well, and everyone lives happily ever after. True story.

There’s this thing people say about putting good energy into the world and stuff. Look, I’m not into auras, crystals and energies, but I can definitely say this: you put good books into the world, and other good books will find you.

What goes around, comes around, so make sure it’s good books. Among other good things…

And speaking of other good things, I love when things are mapped out. Mapped out things are good. Be that an entire future like my friend, Andi did in her amazing piece on “Four Thousand Weeks”, or information about virtually anything like in David McCandless’ “Information is Beautiful” and “Knowledge is Beautiful”. Yes. I have what some would call an

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Attila Vágó
Attila Vágó

Written by Attila Vágó

Staff software engineer, tech writer, author and opinionated human. LEGO and Apple fan. Accessibility advocate. Life enthusiast. Living in Dublin, Ireland. ☘️

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