Stories, People and Ideas Hi Reader, Happy New Year! I thought I'd start this year's newsletters with a series of reflections on the stories, people and ideas that have shaped my thinking over the years. Today's story is about the French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Some of my professors were quite disparaging about him. The story we were told was that he went to Brazil in the late 1930s, and in his writing, he described the people he met as if they had always be the same and would...