THE IMPORTANCE OF BOREDOM AND LONELINESS

I was listening the other day to an old episode of the always brilliant Strong Towns podcast and buried in an otherwise amazing discussion about the need for economics to move past its “Newtonian” phase, was an interesting little aside about Einstein’s time in the patent clerk’s office, which is where he came up with the theory of relativity. The host, Chuck Marohn wondered aloud about what would have happened if…