A friend of mine sent me an interesting thought problem.

Civilization as you know it is about to end. You have the option of taking yourself and ten other people to a desert island with you. Who do you take?

I listed the ten most obvious people and thought I was done. But the question wormed around for a while and I began to revise my list, eventually only having four people from the original list on the final one. I considered the idea of being trapped on a small island with some of these people, the fact that some are quite old and wouldn’t live long anyway, the need for non-related people (assuming you’re going to be there for many, many years), and so on.

Think about it. It’s not as obvious as you might first believe.

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