Businesses were established by men. They pretended they had no families.

“As my daughter Jessica, who is the CEO of a green-energy investment company in New York City, put it: ‘Businesses were established by men. They pretended they had no families. Families and women stayed home. When women joined the workforce, the deal was we pretended we didn’t have a family either and played by men’s rules. Then came Covid, and business meetings were on Zoom.

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I found my life stripped to the essentials.

“I found my life stripped to the essentials. What I was doing full-time ‘career-wise’ wasn’t about career at all. It was about being a full-time father of three, grandfather of five, and husband of one. I found during the year-plus of stay-at-home sheltering that I was living in tune with the most basic evolutionary prime directive of all, which I’d been researching for this book for five years: the survival of the friendliest.”

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