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Rather, gifting carries with it a collective intelligence that knows our participation in the gift is what sustains us. We don’t just benefit via increased social bonds and that warm fuzzy feeling of “doing good” – when we’re kind to each other and the world round us, we are literally increasing our chances of survival.
Rebecca • Quantifying the Gift
Kevin Kwok has a schtick about how friend groups underinvest in themselves. A group of people with high mutual trust, shared interests, and low coordination costs have already solved for many of the issues that otherwise prevent humans from accomplishing great things.
Nadia Asparouhova • 27: Friend groups
Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?
Jeff Bezos • "What Matters More Than Your Talents"
Our global success is due, at least in part, to a specific evolutionary trait: the ability to share attention with others.