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happiness by one per cent,’
Catherine Gray • The Unexpected Joy of Being Single
Expertise isn’t going anywhere: we’re just finding new ways to measure and signal it.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
indicate that your physical self possesses about 10 trillion human cells and about 100 trillion bacterial cells.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
for greater scientific understanding (23andMe) or in propagating user-submitted data to motivate behavior change in others (traineo).
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Aberration of Starlight
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
The theory is this: some infectious agents–notably those that coevolved with us–protect us from immune-related disorders.