“Trivia, as I’ve said before, shouldn’t really be called “trivia.” Facts about history, geography, books, movies, music – this is the stuff that used to be called good old-fashioned “general knowledge,” the stuff that everybody was supposed to remember from school, regardless of their career niche. We lost something the more we specialized – it started to drain away this vast pool of information that everybody knew. Knowledge was what connected us, and now it distinguishes us.”
