Your social life has a biological limit: 150. That’s the number—Dunbar’s number, proposed by the British psychologist Robin Dunbar three decades ago—of people with whom you can have meaningful relationships.
Dunbar's Number lives at the bottom of the Dunning-Krueger slope, and is a great way to sound educated to uneducated people.
In the spirit of making policy based on this thinly understood premise, I advocate limiting the distribution of Atlantic articles to no more than 150 of the author's closest relations. God forbid they overload the simple brains of their readers by exposing them to ideas too alien and viral for them to comprehend.
Dunbar's Number lives at the bottom of the Dunning-Krueger slope, and is a great way to sound educated to uneducated people.
In the spirit of making policy based on this thinly understood premise, I advocate limiting the distribution of Atlantic articles to no more than 150 of the author's closest relations. God forbid they overload the simple brains of their readers by exposing them to ideas too alien and viral for them to comprehend.