Wellness / Nathan Hill

“Building big things is risky, Jack, and humanity couldn’t do it until we figured out how to spread that risk around. The Sumerians were the first to crack it, and thus became the world’s first empire. They devised a way to insure all those expeditions into unmapped country, all those ships and caravans facing unknown peril. History remembers the travelers themselves, the Marco Polos and Magellans and such, but the real heroes of those stories are the underwriters.”

p. 56

“Don’t feel bad. It happens to everyone. It’s not your fault. You’re just operating a technology that is out of date and broken and maybe even sort of abusive in how it makes people feel like failures and frauds. I mean, there’s a good reason why marriage had nothing to do with romance or sex or love for most of history. You ever wonder why arranged marriages were, like, the norm for centuries?”
“I’d say patriarchy.”
“Okay, yeah, but also? It’s because NRE feelings of romantic love are strong but fleeting. And a marriage needs to be dependable, long-lasting, resilient. So people all throughout history thought it was actually dangerous to have too much romance within marriage.”
“Hence letting the parents decide.”
“That’s right. People do crazy shit because of NRE. They”

p. 143

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