So what happened was, I have developed my shopping list to the point where it got useful to me, after which I lost interest in working on it. You know, the usual story… It was however causing me enough annoyances to still want to get back to it eventually. So ...
I'm a fan of a hypothesis about "mental capacity" being a finite quantity that you spend while actively using your brain and recover during rest. It may sound obvious, but history is full of many seemingly "obvious" truisms that were ultimately disproved by science (like geocentric planetary model or cold ...
The Dawn of Everything is a book by an archaeologist David Wengrow and an anthropologist David Graeber who methodically dismantle the simplified view of the progress of human civilization. That we went from small bands of hunters-gatherers to tribes, to agriculture, to cities, to empires and ended up with our ...