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How Modern Accounting Invented the Sketchbook

How Modern Accounting Invented the Sketchbook

Update: 2025-01-09
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Happy New Year! In the first episode of 2025, we travel back to Florence in the medieval ages, and how the adoption of double-entry system of accounting inadvertantly led to the rise of sketching, and thus, more realistic art. 

How are you documenting your intellectual journeys this year?

Here is how I am doing mine—through longform reflective writing and sketching:

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You can reach out to me on Instagram: @‌postcards.pfn

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How Modern Accounting Invented the Sketchbook

How Modern Accounting Invented the Sketchbook

Utsav Mamoria