A historian I know rants a lot about the fashion to write historic books in anything but chronological order. There's a lot of machinery in our brains that aut

A historian I know rants a lot about the fashion to write historic books in anything but chronological order. There's a lot of machinery in our brains that automatically parse chronological stories for dependencies and correlations. If you break up the order you throw it all away and everything becomes manual. It makes it easier to force people to agree with your interpretation, nothing feels "off". It's like writing sequential imperative code vs a bunch of callbacks. Pretty obvious what's easier to debug.