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D-squared Digest -- FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else
blog.danieldavies.comLike bees, our ancestors were (1) territorial creatures with a fondness for defensible nests (such as caves) who (2) gave birth to needy offspring that required enormous amounts of care, which had to be given while (3) the group was under threat from neighboring groups. For hundreds of thousands of years, therefore, conditions were in place that pu
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
All living beings require energy to perform their daily functions, including sleeping. Over time, species have developed different mechanisms to increase their energy efficiency. The tendency in organisms to conserve their energy is what ensures they will have extra to draw on in times of increased need. For humans, we have to be careful though, to
... See moreShane Parrish • The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology
Humans in more or less our current modern form have walked the earth for roughly three hundred thousand years. For all but the last ten thousand or so of these many years, we lived as seminomadic hunters and gatherers. These timescales are sufficiently vast for the insistent logics of natural selection to adapt our bodies and brains toward an exist
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