How Modern Accounting Invented the Sketchbook

Happy New Year! In the first episode of 2025, we travel back to Florence in the medieval ages, and how the adoption of double-entry system of accounting inadvertantly led to the rise of sketching, and thus, more realistic art. 

How are you documenting your intellectual journeys this year?

Here is how I am doing mine—through longform reflective writing and sketching:

Why are we so tired all the time?

Why we understand time wrong

 

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