Ep 585 - The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan
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The Importance of Imperfections in Bix's Story
The tech that underlies Bix's whole career is this research by a woman named Miranda Klein. This is Mindy from goon squad who has like algorithmically come up with why and how humans are social animals. She had to go to an indigenous, a small indigenous community in Brazil where everybody knows everybody's business for like generations. And then it gets sold to Bix at some point because their family doesn't have a lot of money.
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