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Summer Vacations, QWERTY Keyboards and the Power of Perpendicular Thinking

Jul 24, 2018 | Perpendicular Thinking, Thinking Tools

Have you ever wondered why we take summer vacations? The practice is a relic of the agrarian economy and was meant to allow farmers’ children (a critical part of the workforce at the time) to pitch in during harvest season. Small family farming began to recede...

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