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How Our Leisure Time Got Monetized

According to anthropologist Andrea Migliano's survey of 300 members of a hunter-gatherer tribe in the Philippines, she asked each respondent to pick five people they would want as companions if they were setting up a new community. She expected that they would choose the best hunters. Or maybe the strongest or the best at building. Or perhaps the best healer or the smartest leader. Instead they preferred the best storytellers.

— Ted Gioia
3w ago

The savage in man is never quite eradicated. I have just read of a manthe other day picking up an arrowhead on the Assabet, and it suggested the same thoughts as if I had found it myself—that there is something very congenial between the sight of such an object and the human mind.

2mo ago
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Expanding the Radius of Daily Life

It is an anthropological invariant rooted in territorial behavior that when humans access a faster mode of transportation, they use it to travel further instead of traveling less. We are born to spread. We like to commute about 30 minutes each way, or about an hour a day. Give us a faster vehicle, and we don't pocket all the time we save. We spend it to reach more of the map.

3mo ago

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