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Alexander Grothendieck, who I also discussed in my  review of The Art of Learning , was one of the most productive, generative, and eccentric mathematicians of the 20th century. Grothendieck was also an energetic alien. According to multiple sources, he went through a ten-year period during which he invented (I suspect he would say discovered)

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In primitive societies, people were entirely self-sufficient. They gathered their own food, made their own clothing, and found their own shelter. Today no one's self sufficient; we're all specialized and depend on many other people worldwide in a nonzero-sum way. Everything you consume you could never produce on your own — your daily life depends... See more

So on the one hand companies love afforestation as a carbon offset mechanism because it’s good for branding (everyone loves trees) and easy to pay for, but on the other hand, the results of such programs are very controversial.

“regular people” – when divested from allegiances to sponsorships and corporate algorithms – are the best tastemakers of our times

A few years ago, I started noticing invitations coming with a set of rules. Kind of boring or controlling, right? Wrong. In this multicultural, intersectional society, where more of us are gathered and raised by people and with etiquette unlike our own, where we don't share the etiquette, unspoken norms are trouble, whereas pop-up rules allow us to... See more

Modern mobile browsers, Shapiro believes, are just as versatile as anything you’ll find in the iOS store. Over the course of 2020, his team built out an app store of individual units they called Kojis. Each Koji has a very specific functionality — whether it’s a game or a way to lock content behind a paywall — and aims to be as customizable as... See more