Culture is (mostly) information stored in human brains, and gets transmitted from brain to brain by way of a variety of social learning processes.

The key is to focus on the details of individual lives. Kids imitate one another, their parents, and other adults, and both children and adults are taught by others. As children grow up they acquire cultural influences, skills, beliefs, and

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.