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Vertical control, in contrast, manages thinking, development, and coordination of individual topics and projects.
Getting Things Done
David Allen
But it does suggest an explanation for one curious observation: while we cannot help laughing if those we are talking to laugh, we find it positively irritating if another conversation across the room bursts into uproarious laughter. It feels like an intrusion into our private social space. Laughter as a social device and a bonding mechanism is very specific to the little group actually interacting with each other.
During the second century AD, Rome was ruled by a line of emperors born in Iberia, in whose veins probably flowed at least a few drops of local Iberian blood. The reigns of the lberian emperors – from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius – are often seen as the empire’s golden age.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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