Let us begin with an uncomfortable truth: your wrist is underdressed. While you've been obsessing over smartwatches that track your 137th mediocre step, humanity's original wristwear – the beaded bracelet – has been quietly staging a revolution. I recently discovered that Cleopatra wore agate bracelets to board meetings (the original power suit), and medieval monks counted prayers on knotted ropes (the world's first productivity app). Suddenly, my fitness tracker felt about as cultured as a potato. A Brief History of Humanity's First Status SymbolThe first beaded bracelet wasn't "invented" – it was confessed. Some 75,000 years ago, a Neanderthal in South...