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Here’s the good kind of gossip: “Hey, I heard Angela is having a hard time in her family right now. Let’s reach out and see if there is something we can do to help her.” Here’s the necessary kind of gossip: “I was wondering if you could hold some space for me to talk through a situation I had with someone. I’m really upset and I need to just say ev

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The best and most lasting communities all gather around HIGHLY SPECIFIC needs. This shared context is key for bonding and it gives strangers an immediate, intimate reason to know and trust each other.

The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end. Reliable information about who could be trusted meant that small bands could expand into larger bands, and Sapiens could develop tighter and more sophisticated types of cooperation.1 The gossip theory might sound like a joke,

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