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Division of labor by sex is not the only economic specialization known to primitive societies. But it is the dominant form, transcending all other specialization in this sense: that the normal activities of any adult man, taken in conjunction with the normal activities of an adult woman, practically exhaust the customary works of society. Therefore marriage, among other things, establishes a generalized economic group constituted to produce the local conception of livelihood.
Stone Age Economics
Marshall Sahlins and David Graeber
data can only truly deliver via negativa–style knowledge—it can be effectively used to debunk, not confirm.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In 1193, Malik Al-Afdal, son of Saladin, scourge of the Crusaders, deeded a parcel of land in front of the Wall to worshippers and Islamic scholars from North Africa or the Maghreb. By the time Dayan arrived in the Old City, the eight-hundred-year-old Moroccan Quarter, as it came to be known, was housing 108 families living on roughly three city blocks.
The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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