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Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Etymology of the Coinage

It's really weird that the coinage thing is like coining a term or minting is the metaphor for like the actual money thingy and then also these new words or phrases that we use that are incredibly valuable in terms of efficiency and so on. I just find that interesting the etymology of the word coin. Yeah and it's I mean it's in the axial age I think I could be wrong about this but I think money doesn't really come together into that kind of period that he's talking about. So maybe a thousand B.C. to 500 B. C. that is when a lot of places start to get money. There's some innovations in terms of how

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