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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.

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The Profile: Apple’s next CEO & the billionaire who wants to reshape Miami

Profiles are about figuring out what is a central complication of somebody's life and how, on a daily basis, they go about solving it.

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Why Do We Get Mad at Inanimate Objects?

The hatred for anything giving us pain, which wreaks itself on the manifest cause, and which leads even a civilized man to kick a door when it pinches his finger, is embodied in . . . doctrines of early Roman law.