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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates

John Seiffer • Output Thinking: Scale Faster, Manage Better, Transform Your Company

Psychological ground for the need for curation:"- Zuckerberg’s Law, or the tendency to share more and more on social media over time -Dunbar’s number, or the average number of stable social relationships one can maintain at a given time (it’s around 150)-Zipf’s Law, which describes how in any system of resources there are a small number of items of... See more

Gaby Goldberg • Curators Are the New Creators

The gift economy is thus the relationship of friends, or family, or different people trying to build an alliance.

Lawrence Lessig • Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It

the average Homo sapiens is probably incapable of intimately knowing more than 150 individuals.

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

We do not trust the stranger, or the next-door neighbour – we trust the coin they hold. If they run out of coins, we run out of trust. As money brings down the dams of community, religion and state, the world is in danger of becoming one big and rather heartless marketplace.

Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens

these researchers were able to predict the fate of newlywed couples ten years later just by measuring hormone levels in their blood during their first year of marriage!

John Gottman • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

Human social relations are based on habits of reciprocity, altruism, commerce, physical attraction, and procreation.

Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

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