Therapy Is Your Religion: Therapy-speak has become a secular faith and we've medicalised being human
My most ‘boomer’ opinion is that therapy-speak has had its day. There’s a strange set of words which have
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Why You're Wrong About Nigeria: Base rate blindness and exposure bias mean the things you see are never a random sample
I once saw a Twitter thread claiming that internet scams were extremely common and even arguably acceptable in Nigeria due
Real Treasure Lies in Boring Places: Mastery lives in the fundamentals and the basics are only basic for the uncaring
You can spot someone who lacks fundamentals immediately. On a basketball court at the park, you may see the novice
Your Brain Is Lying to You Right Now: The split-brain experiments revealed a storytelling machine that confabulates reasons for things it doesn't understand
In the 1960s, two researchers, Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga, began studying patients whose corpus callosum had been severed. Think
Why Fat Tigers Stop Hunting: Provision without purpose creates dysfunction and comfort can be the enemy of capability
I watched a video of tourists feeding wild Amur tigers through thick glass panels. The tigers barely moved. They lounged,
Russian Saunas Are Inverse Alcohol: Short-term suffering trades for long-term gains and most of life works the same way
Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of social app Telegram, swears by a morning routine of 300 push-ups and 300 squats.
Why the Richest Men Are Divorced: Envy is fractal and comparison is a trap that scales with success
Envy is a trap. Not just from a moral perspective, but because it’s also useless as a tool. The
How to Hunt a Buffalo: The secret to low-hanging fruit and why effort matters less than strategy
When you think of the hyena, you probably imagine a scavenger. The giant rat of the savannah. Movies like The
Your Voice Isn't Yours: How the way you speak reveals the memes you've absorbed
Voices are interesting things. Many people hate the way they sound. We're often attracted to the ways others
Why Goldfish Stay Small (And You Might Too): The pond you're in sets the ceiling for your growth
Goldfish are cute, small fish that equally small children like to keep as pets. Except, they're not always
Why Ice Is Slippery (We Were Wrong): How little we actually know about the most familiar things
The average person is wrong about the most trivial things. But don’t worry - they’re not alone. I
Why Keeping Options Open Keeps You Mediocre: The hidden tension between optionality and compounding
The future isn't a failsafe. Optionality and compounding are enemy twins. It's rare that you can
