Adam Savage: “And there’s two types of those decisions. There’s ones in terms of your career and the creative output that you want to do. And the other is actually I think is even more important – it’s about your quality of life. You know, we make decisions based on our careers, but also on our families and our days, how much sleep we want to get, where we want to live, and how we want our job to feel. I’ve gotten more out of thinking how I want a work experience to feel than I have about what I actually want to be doing there. So really think about your quality of life – about the way you want to take care of your partner, your family and your kids, your parents. All of those things really matter in terms of achieving your long-term goals.”

“The political institutions found in many citizen-centered Greek states — but especially in democratic states and most especially in democratic Athens — put specialization and innovation on overdrive, by encouraging individuals to take more rational risks and develop more distinctive skills. People willingly invested in their own education and took the risks of entrepreneurship because they knew that they had legal recourse if and when a powerful individual or corrupt official tried to steal their profits.”

“…chimpanzees have been using stone tools in the rainforests of Ivory Coast for at least 4300 years. The chimpanzee Stone Age began at least that early, and maybe even earlier, says Boesch. However, “it is very hard to predict where you would find soil layers that would be old enough to look at earlier periods.””