Sarah Drinkwater

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Forget what they say—instead look at who they marry.

This is a sure-fire technique, and it tells you important things about people you can’t learn any other way. A person’s choice of a spouse—or if they aren’t married, their closest lifelong partner—is much more revealing than anything they say or do in public.

This choice tells you about their own

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The first and largest “user” of a Web3 platform — defined as a software service running on an open blockchain (and often called a “protocol” in Web3 parlance) — is usually the product team that built the underlying platform. Web3 teams building these platforms are wise to build the first product on top and give it away for “free,” as a commodity,... See more

Amsterdam was arguably “the world’s most liberal city”, to quote the subtitle of this well-told history by Russell Shorto, an American writer who lives in Amsterdam. Shorto argues that little Amsterdam “has influenced the modern world to a degree that perhaps no other city has”.

Dunbar actually doesn’t say that we devote “grooming time” to the whole social group of 150. Rather he says that the 150 is made up from welding together much smaller “primary networks”: coalitions, friendship groups. Intensive grooming (language, for humans) is reserved for close friends. Our intimate group is very small, averaging just five.

If capitalism individualises us, then care can bring us together – giving us cause to celebrate connection over engagement and relationships rather than subscriber numbers.