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Own a Piece of Everything? Robinhood's Ownership Pitch, Weighed
You may feel AI's gains are going to people who are already rich. Robinhood's CEO agrees, and pitches stock tokens, AI trading agents and venture funds as the fix. He sells all of them. His case, what checks out, and what's still open.
Read the story →The Polite Lies That Add Up
You've laughed at a joke that wasn't funny or agreed to a plan you didn't want. Timur Kuran calls that preference falsification: public lies that compound until groups and regimes look stronger than they are.
Read the story →When Pretend Empathy Feels Like Enough: Sherry Turkle on Chatbot Friends
You might find texting easier than calling. Sherry Turkle says that habit leads straight to chatbot friends, which offer a performance of empathy that starts to feel like enough. Her argument, Sam Harris's pushback, and what checks out.
Read the story →Protect the Two Work Bouts: Andrew Huberman on Guarding Your Focus
You probably can't focus for eight hours, and Andrew Huberman says you shouldn't try. He argues most people get two sharp windows a day, and shares the short training routine he's used for decades. His advice, what checks out, and his commercial ties.
Read the story →The Eight-Week Window: Robert Pape's Escalation Trap Thesis, Checked
You might think election risk ends on voting day. Political scientist Robert Pape argues the weeks before the incoming Congress sits are the real danger, because wars escalate like losing bets. His theory, his firebreaks, and what checks out.
Read the story →Interests or Prophecy? Jiang Xueqin's End-Times Theory of the Iran War, Checked
You've heard the war explained as a fight over oil or China. YouTube forecaster Jiang Xueqin says neither fits, and blames end-times belief instead. His argument, what checks out, what doesn't, and why the headline goes far beyond the evidence.
Read the story →Real Life Beats Cheap Dopamine: Jimmy Carr on Young Men, Agency and Kept Promises
You may be living better than any king in history and still feel worse. Jimmy Carr says comparison is why, and that young men trade career, sex and freedom for online proxies. His case for agency, risk and kept promises, and what the data actually show.
Read the story →You Are Not What Happened to You: James Hollis on Breaking Old Patterns
If you keep repeating the same mistakes, Jungian analyst James Hollis says it's not a character flaw but an old pattern still running. How he says to spot yours, why a symptom can be a question, and what he thinks growing up really asks of you.
Read the story →A Process, Not a Personality: Dan Martell's Four Steps for Any Sales Call
Dan Martell argues you don't need charm to sell, you need four steps: connect, diagnose, prescribe, commit. How his framework works, which parts you can use on your next call, and which closing tactics deserve a second look. He sells coaching on this.
Read the story →Who Holds the Key? If Your AI Agent Moves Your Money, the Loss May Be Yours
After AI-found PHP flaws sent the web scrambling, All-In and Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora asked who pays when your AI agent moves money you didn't intend. Their near-consensus: you, because you gave it agency. Here's what we checked and what we didn't.
Read the story →Red Is a Relationship: Lisa Feldman Barrett on Why Reality Runs on Agreement
Lisa Feldman Barrett argues that the red you see is neither in the object nor only in your head, but in the relationship between light and a brain your culture wired. Money and borders work the same way, she says, though reality is not infinitely flexible.
Read the story →Inside the Fence: Why Trust, Not Intelligence, Decides Which AI Agents You Use
An a16z panel tracking 147 personal AI agents finds that trust, not intelligence, is the top worry. You may say privacy matters, then trade it for pizza. Agents make different trade-offs on the same task, and the strangest experiments are social. a16z's stakes disclosed.
Read the story →The Bill Has a Number: Anthropic's $895 Billion Compute Tab, Weighed
Anthropic's amended IPO filing puts a number on the AI bill: about $895 billion in compute commitments. On Prof G Markets, the FT's John Foley explains why costs outpacing revenue, a possible junk rating and Big Tech's borrowing all matter if you are weighing the boom.
Read the story →The Rally Call, Weighed: Tom Lee's Case and His Forecasting Record
Tom Lee told Prof G Markets the correction is over and the S&P 500 could reach 8,400 by the end of 2026. His test for an AI bubble is worth keeping. His forecasting record, which we checked, says to treat the target as one scenario, not a promise.
Read the story →You See What You Aim At: Jordan Peterson on Value, Stories and a Claim About Young Women, Checked
Jordan Peterson argues that what you value decides what you see, and that stories teach you what to aim at. Jonathan Pageau says fairy tales can't be bent at will. Plus Peterson's claim about young liberal women, checked against CDC and Gallup data.
Read the story →Robots by the Hour: Tutor Intelligence's Pitch to Factories That Have Never Bought a Robot
Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein says most US factories have never bought a robot. His pitch: general-purpose robots rented at about $16 an hour, with remote humans whose help trains the AI. a16z, which hosted, led the company's Series B.
Read the story →Tokens Are Cheap. The Bundle Isn't: Modal's Erik Bernhardsson on Where AI Inference Margins Live
Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson tells Harry Stebbings that selling raw AI tokens is a race to the bottom, and that inference margins live in the bundle around them. GPUs, margin stacking and open models, checked, with his conflicts disclosed.
Read the story →Not a Verdict, an Iteration: Joe Hudson on Why Every Decision Is an Emotional Problem
Coach Joe Hudson tells Chris Williamson that deciding is an emotional problem, not an information one: feel the worst case first, decide by principle, and treat each choice as one bet in a portfolio. His claims, checked against decision research.
Read the story →Two Steps Ahead: Colin Camerer on Why You're Only About 75% Rational
Caltech's Colin Camerer tells Sean Carroll why people are only about 75% rational: we reason a step or two ahead of others, run on habit, and price the future in brain circuits that wording can bend. His studies, checked.
Read the story →What Are the Odds? The Fine-Tuned Universe and the Improbability of You
The forces of the universe are balanced so precisely that a small nudge would erase all life, and the same staggering improbability runs straight through to the people who matter most. On cosmic fine-tuning, and the wonder of exist
Read the story →Who Profits From Your Panic? Reading a Doomsday News Cycle
A finance YouTuber spends a video trying to make sense of a terrifying news cycle and lands on a sharper question than is the end near: who profits from your fear? A look at the economics of panic, the ratchet of emergency power, and how to read alarming headlines without being played.
Read the story →Fewer Sets, Harder Sets: Jeff Cavaliere on Lifting as You Age, and What the Studies Say
Physical therapist Jeff Cavaliere tells Peter Attia that older lifters should cut junk volume, train closer to failure where it's safe, and route around injuries instead of resting. His rules, his exercise graveyard, and what the research says.
Read the story →Fifty Creators, No Two Alike: Wispr Flow's Hector Serrano on Paying for Ads That Perform
Wispr Flow's Hector Serrano explains how about 50 creators on commission make the AI app's ads: a pay floor, handpicked and deliberately varied recruits, and a push to experiment. The playbook, with its limits.
Read the story →Rigged, or Just Tilted? Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico's Economic Case, Checked
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico tells Steven Bartlett the economy is rigged by crony capitalism. His story, his fixes, Bartlett's pushback, and which of his numbers hold up. We take no position in the race.
Read the story →The Wrong Bubble: Josh Brown on Why AI's Real Risk Is Earnings, Not Prices
Josh Brown tells Prof G Markets that if AI is a bubble, it's the most pathetic he's seen: prices already bake in doubt. Why he says the risk is in earnings, why some losses aren't losses, and the bear case he does take seriously, checked.
Read the story →Step Outside the Circle: Robert Greene on Finding the Sublime in Ordinary Attention
Robert Greene tells Andrew Huberman that awe isn't a trip you take but a doorway out of habit. His circle of consciousness, self-remembering, slowing your frame rate and falling in love on purpose, with his history and science claims checked.
Read the story →Fewer Problems, Same Worry: James Smith on Why Success Never Empties the Worry Jar
James Smith tells Chris Williamson his first $100,000 month felt smaller than his first $10,000 one. Why worry expands as life improves, the monthly number that buys calm, and ambition as a game, with claims checked.
Read the story →Laughter Needs a Room: Jimmy Carr on Why Comedy Is Connection, and Why He Doubts AI Can Be Funny
Jimmy Carr tells Sam Harris that comedy's real purpose is connection, that it should be taught like music, and that AI won't be funny because it can't laugh with anyone. His craft, his view of AI, and what we checked.
Read the story →Real Records, Contested Reading: A Former CIA Analyst's Case That the West Provoked Russia
Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern argues that broken promises, ignored warnings and rejected diplomacy explain Russia's war better than ambition. His case, attributed to him, with the documents checked and the counter-readings laid out.
Read the story →Smarter, Quieter: Michal Kosinski on the AI Progress You Can't See, and the Dependence He Fears
Psychologist Michal Kosinski says AI got far smarter than most users notice. Why models feel human, how they learn from talking to you, and his fear that AI domesticates us, with the mathematicians' letter checked.
Read the story →Leave the Tent: Jordan Peterson on Why Comfort Makes You Pick Fights With Your Own Life
Jordan Peterson reads the story of Abraham as a warning: comfort without purpose breeds self-made trouble. His case for answering the call to grow and giving up your immature self, with the claims checked.
Read the story →Not Willpower, a New Link: Tony Robbins's Pain-and-Pleasure Switch, and How Far Research Backs It
A food that once made you sick can repel you for years, with no willpower needed. Tony Robbins says the same switch, from pleasure to pain, drives every change. We check it against research on taste aversion, fear messages and habits.
Read the story →Not Running Out, Running Late: Why Time, Not Copper, Limits AI Abundance
Copper has averaged about 38 years of reserves from 1960 on. Grand Angle argues the real shortage for AI is time, not matter. We check the copper, yttrium and turbine numbers, and the Simon-Ehrlich bet.
Read the story →The Last Class: What Tuesdays with Morrie Teaches About Living, and Which Lessons Research Backs
Fourteen Tuesdays with a dying professor: Morrie's lessons on death, love, regret and money, which ones research supports, and the Auden line that drifted.
Read the story →This Is the Worst AI Yet: Ethan Mollick's Four Rules for Working With AI, and the Study Behind Them
Ethan Mollick's four rules for working with AI, the jagged frontier study he co-wrote, and why a tool that is usually right can make you stop checking.
Read the story →You Might Be Breathing Wrong: James Nestor's Breath, and Where the Evidence Runs Thin
James Nestor's case for slow, nasal breathing, from his nose-plug experiment to mouth taping, weighed against what the studies can actually show.
Read the story →More Pleasure, Less Joy: Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation on Why Easy Hits Leave You Flat
A psychiatrist's case that endless easy pleasure tips the brain toward pain, her 30-day reset, and why the famous dopamine numbers come from rats.
Read the story →People Are Patterns: Robert Greene's Laws of Human Nature, and How Far to Trust Them
Greene's 18 laws for reading the people around you, and yourself. A useful lens for paying closer attention, built on stories from history rather than studies.
Read the story →The Seed Investor Who Won't Fight the Giants: David Tisch on Why Small Has to Be a Choice
BoxGroup's David Tisch says seed funds shouldn't fight the giant firms head-on, that 90% win-rate claims are "total BS" and that low ownership is an emotional worry, not a business one. Here is his case, with what we checked and his conflicts.
Read the story →Narcissism Is a Dial, Not a Diagnosis: Ramani Durvasula on Spotting the Pattern and Healing Without Leaving
Ramani Durvasula says the question isn't whether someone is a narcissist but how narcissistic they are. Her guide to love bombing, gaslighting and healing without leaving, plus a check on the headline's "1 in 6", which isn't a diagnosis rate.
Read the story →How Robert Caro Gets the Truth Out of Power: Know the Documents, Ask Why, Watch Who Calls
Robert Caro has spent 50 years getting powerful people to say what they shouldn't. Talking to Dwarkesh Patel, he explains how: know the documents, ask why, read small signs of power and get every book down to one sentence. We check his numbers.
Read the story →Anthropic's Numbers Are Real. So Is the Bill: All-In on Who Pays for the AI Build-Out
Anthropic's S-1 shows $16.3 billion of first-half revenue and a mostly non-cash loss, while Google lost $500 billion in a day over AI costs. The All-In hosts argue over who pays for the build-out. We check the numbers and the hosts' ties.
Read the story →The Test That Sorted You Was Built on a Belief: Jiang Xueqin's Case Against the Meritocracy, Checked
If a test score ever sorted you, Jiang Xueqin says the system behind it is failing children, and that it grew from a quasi-religious faith in reason. We check his history of the SAT, IQ and the word meritocracy, and look at the school he'd build instead.
Read the story →The Biggest Crypto Robbery, Explained Like You're Five: What Happened at Binance
What if a robber made a big shop's machine hand out everyone's coins? Andrei Jikh explains the record Binance theft, and we explain it so a five-year-old can follow: what's known, what's still a guess, and how to keep your coins safe.
Read the story →The Time You Have Left: What Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air Teaches About Living Without Knowing
At 36, neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi saw his own lungs matted with tumors. His doctor wouldn't give him a number. When Breath Becomes Air is his answer to how to live when your time is short but uncertain, and where its statistics stand.
Read the story →Does It Actually Work? AI Snake Oil and How to Spot AI That Can't Deliver
Software is quietly deciding who gets hired, insured or released on bail, and much of it barely beats chance. Narayanan and Kapoor's AI Snake Oil separates real AI progress from hype, and gives you the questions to ask.
Read the story →One Root, Many Branches? What Good Energy Gets Right About Metabolic Health, and What It Oversells
Fatigue, weight gain, blood pressure, low mood: Casey and Calley Means's Good Energy blames one root cause. Its everyday advice is sound. Its 93% statistic, glucose targets and the authors' business ties deserve a closer look.
Read the story →Why You Did That: Robert Sapolsky's Behave, Rewinding One Act From a Second to a Million Years
Why did you do that? Robert Sapolsky's Behave rewinds a single act through your brain, hormones, childhood, genes and culture. His case that biology amplifies rather than dictates, which studies aged badly, and the free-will fight.
Read the story →Your Gut Is Guessing: What Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow Gets Right, and the Chapters That Failed
Your fast, confident gut answers most questions before you think. Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow shows when it misleads you. Which findings held up, and which chapters failed replication, as Kahneman admitted.
Read the story →Nice Players Finish First: Veritasium on Game Theory, the Prisoner's Dilemma and Why Tit for Tat Won
You think winning means beating the other player. Veritasium shows why a strategy that never wins a single game won Axelrod's Prisoner's Dilemma tournaments: be nice, hit back, forgive, be clear.
Read the story →The Case Too Small to Take: Why No Lawyer Wants Your Small Claim, and How AI Could Change That
Plaintiff lawyers turn away cases worth under about $5,000 in fees. Eve's Jay Madheswaran says AI can do that labour, so firms take far more clients. a16z is an Eve investor; we check the claims.
Read the story →Your Normal, Measured: WHOOP's Will Ahmed on Wearables That Spot Illness Early, GLP-1s and the FDA Fight
WHOOP's Will Ahmed says your wearable baseline can flag illness, show which habits help, and protect muscle on GLP-1s. We check his muscle claim and how WHOOP's blood pressure fight with the FDA really ended.
Read the story →Power Without a Vote: How Robert Moses Ran New York Unelected, and How LBJ Built the Senate's Top Job
Robert Moses ran New York for 30 years without an election, by drafting the laws, locking powers into bonds and making himself too useful to fire. Dwarkesh Patel sets that beside LBJ. We check the figures.
Read the story →Borrowed Resilience: Mohamed El-Erian on the Iran War, $116 Oil and Why a Second Shock Could Cost More
Mohamed El-Erian says the world survived the first Iran-war oil shock on borrowed resilience. Those buffers are spent, and a second disruption could mean $150 oil while borrowing costs are high. We check his numbers.
Read the story →Measuring the Wrong World: Rob Kurzban on Why You Feel Bad When Nothing Is Wrong
Evolutionary psychologist Rob Kurzban says every feeling measures something and motivates a response, and many bad feelings are reading a world we left. Envy, road rage, anxiety and judginess, checked.
Read the story →Let Them, Then Let Me: Mel Robbins's Let Them Theory, Its Stoic Roots, and Where It Stops Working
Mel and Sawyer Robbins's The Let Them Theory says stop managing other people and own your response. Both halves, the Stoic roots, what research says about control, and where the idea stops working.
Read the story →Wisdom Can't Be Taught: Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha and the Seeker Who Walked Away From the Buddha
Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha follows a seeker who leaves every teacher, even the Buddha, because wisdom can't be handed over. The story, why it says wisdom must be lived, and where the idea goes too far.
Read the story →The Elephant Decides First: Jonathan Haidt on Why Good People Disagree and How to Talk Across the Divide
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind says we judge by gut and reason afterward, and that morality runs on more than harm and fairness. The elephant and rider, six foundations, and what has held up.
Read the story →More Information, Not More Truth: Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus on Why AI Is an Agent, Not a Tool
Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus argues information connects people more than it reveals truth, and that AI is the first technology that can decide for itself. His case, what it means for democracy, and the pushback.
Read the story →What Are You Willing to Trade? Atul Gawande's Being Mortal on Choosing a Good Life Over Just More Time
Atul Gawande's Being Mortal argues medicine should aim for a good life to the end, not just more time. Here are his four questions for anyone seriously ill, and what the research behind them shows.
Read the story →Who Pays for the Chips? 20VC on Why AI's Build-Out Is Moving From Debt to Shareholders and Staff
Jason Lemkin and Rory O'Driscoll argue AI spending has outgrown cash flow and debt, so big tech is selling stock and cutting staff. We check Anthropic's S-1, Meta's $95B raise and Microsoft's buyouts.
Read the story →Always Smelling You: Neuroscientist Noam Sobel on the Hidden Chemistry of Handshakes, Friendship and Tears
Noam Sobel shows humans constantly smell each other: we sniff our hands after handshakes, click friends smell alike, tears lower testosterone and a baby molecule calms men but rouses women.
Read the story →Right Person, Wrong Time? Mel Robbins's Blunt Relationship Advice for Her 27-Year-Old Daughter
Mel Robbins and her daughter Sawyer take on relationship questions: three signs someone isn't right, why skills can change but traits can't, the exhale-smile-hug test, money, stalemates and breakups.
Read the story →Production Is Deterrence: Why a16z Says America's Real Bottleneck Is Factories, Mines and Power, Not Weapons
a16z's 2026 American Dynamism 50 says deterrence now depends on what America can build. Why founders are betting on factories, mines and power, and why defense makes a useful first customer.
Read the story →The Sea Beats the Land: Historian Sarah Paine on Why Conquest Burns Wealth, and What Russia's War Reveals
Naval War College historian Sarah Paine says conquest burns wealth while the rules-based maritime order compounds it. Her toolkit explains Russia's war, sanctions as chemotherapy, and her warning to America.
Read the story →Patient on the Goal, Impatient on the Day: An Ex-Amazon VP on How Jeff Bezos Really Ran Amazon
Ex-Amazon VP Ethan Evans on Jeff Bezos: decades-long patience, daily urgency, the one-character "?" email, why a B is sometimes enough, and how being right so often led to the Fire Phone.
Read the story →Learn the Technique, Not the Recipe: Jacques Pépin's Simple Rule for Mastering Any Craft
Jacques Pépin cooked for de Gaulle, turned down the White House and taught America to cook. His rule for mastery: learn the moves, copy a recipe until you know the taste, then taste, adjust and correct.
Read the story →A Real Day, a Real Night: Kristen Holmes's Four Habits for a Calmer Nervous System, and What the Studies Show
WHOOP scientist Kristen Holmes says health depends on switching cleanly between effort and rest. Her four habits (light, a 12-hour eating window, breathing, zone 2) seem to work through one thing: regular sleep.
Read the story →Aim Just Past Your Skill: Steven Kotler on Training Flow, and the Numbers That Need Correcting
Steven Kotler says flow is trainable: it follows focus, and its key trigger is a challenge just past your skill. His advice holds up; some of his numbers, from DARPA's 230% to who coined ADHD, don't.
Read the story →Trust Is the Product: Mark Cuban on Why Healthcare Costs Hide in the Contracts, and How to Drag Them Out
Mark Cuban says trust is the real product at Cost Plus Drugs, and US healthcare stays expensive because prices and contracts are hidden. His fixes: published markups, direct contracts and AI before you sign.
Read the story →The Correct Life That Went Wrong: Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich and the Question to Ask Before It's Too Late
Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich follows a judge who did everything properly and discovers, dying, that he never really lived. What the story says about lies, approval, honesty and a life well lived.
Read the story →Seven Shortcuts That Say Yes for You: Cialdini's Influence, and Which Persuasion Studies Survived
Robert Cialdini's Influence names seven shortcuts that make us say yes, from reciprocity to unity. How each is used on you, how to resist it, and which classic studies held up under replication.
Read the story →The Wave and the Narrow Path: DeepMind's Co-Founder on Why AI Can't Be Stopped, Only Contained
Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave argues AI and synthetic biology can't be stopped, only contained, along a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia. His four features, ten steps, and whether the plan holds.
Read the story →Right About Sleep, Shaky on the Numbers: What Why We Sleep Gets Right, and the Statistics That Don't Hold
Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep is right that sleep runs memory, mood and health, and that adults need seven-plus hours. But several of its scariest numbers, including a WHO "epidemic", don't hold up.
Read the story →When Words Aren't Enough: The Body Keeps the Score's Big Idea, and What the Evidence Really Supports
Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score says trauma lives on in a body stuck in alarm, so talking alone often isn't enough. Here is his body-first toolkit, and what the evidence supports and disputes.
Read the story →Make Room Before You Add More: Ed Mylett on Why Real Change Starts by Taking Things Away
The man famous for "one more" now says most of us need less. Ed Mylett on why worry is caught, how your inner thermostat pulls you back, and why change starts with subtraction.
Read the story →Depression Was the Worst of It: Terry Bradshaw on Why Two Cancers Weren't His Hardest Fight
Four Super Bowls, two cancers, and Terry Bradshaw says depression was worse. How a panic attack, a year of searching, therapy and a code word with his wife finally helped.
Read the story →Own the Test, Rent the Model: Satya Nadella on Why Your Company's Real AI Asset Isn't the AI
Satya Nadella says treat every AI model as an insider risk, rent cheaper models where they're good enough, and keep your real asset at home: a private test of what good work looks like. We check his claims.
Read the story →The Proof Came First: AI Is Cracking Famous Math Problems, and No One Understands the Answers Yet
AI has been credited with Navier–Stokes blow-up, a step towards the Riemann hypothesis and a 13-million-line proof of Fermat. Three mathematicians ask who will understand them. We check what was really proved.
Read the story →Two Hours of School, Then the Real Lessons: Inside Alpha's AI School Day, and Its Shakiest Claim
At Alpha School, AI teaches core subjects in two hours a day; afternoons go to teamwork, speaking and startups. Founder Joe Liemandt explains the model, and we check his "2x learning" claim.
Read the story →Make It Safe to Be Wrong: 17 Rules for Winning Arguments Without Being Right
Facts rarely win arguments. Chase Hughes's 17 rules do the opposite: slow down, meet the feeling, skip the verdict, and leave the other person a dignified way to change their mind.
Read the story →Judge the Bet, Not the Result: A Poker Pro's Rules for Deciding When You Can't See the Cards
The 'worst call in Super Bowl history' may have been a sound decision. Annie Duke's Thinking in Bets on why we judge choices by outcomes, and the tools that keep your decisions honest.
Read the story →You'll Survive the Change You Fear. That's Also Why Your Life Stopped Sparkling
We bounce back from big changes faster than we expect, and that same speed quietly dulls what we keep. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot on why we change too little and how to make life sparkle again.
Read the story →Memory Series, Part 3: You're Built to Forget Most of Your Life. A Memory Scientist on How to Keep What Matters
Most of your life will be forgotten, and that's by design. Memory scientist Charan Ranganath explains why your phone splits your memories, how curiosity makes things stick, and which habits really protect memory.
Read the story →Whoever Frames the Room Wins: Chase Hughes's Persuasion Playbook, Every Tactic Explained and Fact-Checked
Most persuasion is over before anyone argues. Chase Hughes's full playbook from The Diary Of A CEO, from framing and identity hacks to micro-compliance and courtroom tricks: how each works, how to spot it, and what the evidence says.
Read the story →You Can Learn to Wake Up Inside Your Dreams. The Pill Works, but the Free Method Is Better
More than half of us have known we were dreaming while still asleep. Scientists can now spot it in the brain, and a pill can triple the odds. But the method with the best evidence costs nothing.
Read the story →Orcas Kill Blue Whales and Great Whites. So Why Has No Wild Orca Ever Killed a Human?
They ram blue whales to death and cut the livers out of great white sharks. Yet the wild record of orcas killing people stands at zero. The best explanation isn't gentleness. It's culture.
Read the story →Never Open With a Joke, Never End With "Thank You": MIT's Legendary Rules for Speaking
Your first sentence is probably a joke. Your last is probably "thank you." MIT's Patrick Winston says both are mistakes, and his fixes have drawn more than 23 million views.
Read the story →Your Brain Overrates Your Future. Don't Fight It, Budget for It (Tali Sharot's Playbook)
Your plans run late and your budgets run over, because your brain filters out bad news. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot's fix isn't gloom. It's a buffer, plus a few rules for persuading others.
Read the story →The Gambler Who Beat the Horses Explains Why Almost Everyone Else Loses
Bill Benter built one of the most successful betting operations in history on Hong Kong horse racing. In a 2004 lecture he explains the math behind it: expected value, the law of large numbers, Kelly sizing and a model of every horse. Plus the real money figures.
Read the story →Memory Series, Part 2: There's No Such Thing as a Bad Memory (Jim Kwik's Case, and Where It Falls Apart)
Memory Series, Part 2. A teacher called him "the boy with the broken brain." Now Jim Kwik tells Steven Bartlett memory, focus and motivation are things you do, not traits you own. His learning habits hold up. His speed-reading promises and brain types don't.
Read the story →Man's Search for Meaning in 5 Minutes: Viktor Frankl on the One Freedom No One Can Take
Frankl lost his parents, brother and wife to the Nazi camps, then wrote a short book on what keeps people going. His answer: you can't always choose what happens, but you can choose how you answer. The core ideas, plus what history and research say.
Read the story →AI Isn't the Bubble. The Debt Behind It Might Be.
A company drowning in orders just saw its debt priced like it was in distress. French economics channel Grand Angle says the AI boom is three bubbles stacked up, and the one to watch isn't the tech. It's the money borrowed to build it.
Read the story →You're Not Shy. You've Just Practiced It for Years: A Speaking Coach's Way Out
Shyness feels like who you are. Speaking coach Vinh Giang says it's a habit you've rehearsed for decades, and habits can be retrained. His method starts with one uncomfortable five-minute video. What works, and what needs caveats.
Read the story →The Marshmallow Test Was Never About Willpower. One Professor Says It Measured Trust.
The kid who grabs the marshmallow isn't weak. He may be reading his world correctly. Jiang Xueqin argues self-control, grit and growth mindset follow from a stable childhood, and that blocked ladders spark revolutions. What holds up, and what overreaches.
Read the story →Outlive in 5 Minutes: Peter Attia's Plan to Train Now for the 90-Year-Old You Want to Be
Most of us will die slowly, after a frail final decade. Peter Attia's Outlive says medicine acts too late, and that you should prevent early and train now for the body you'll need at 90. Medicine 3.0, the Four Horsemen and his exercise plan, plus what holds up.
Read the story →Expect the Gold to Get the Silver: A Neuroscientist on Why Optimism Pays
Most of us expect a better future than the evidence suggests. Neuroscientist Tali Sharot says that bias is mostly useful: it fuels effort and happiness. Stress shrinks it; a plan and a sense of control bring it back. What holds up, and what needs caveats.
Read the story →Memory Series, Part 1: How a Six-Time Memory Champion Remembers (It Starts at Your Front Door)
Memory Series, Part 1. Six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis says he was never a natural. His main tool is the ancient memory palace, and anyone can learn it. Plus the review schedule the episode skips, and a fact-check of its wilder claims.
Read the story →Your Brain Pays Your Body's Bills: What 200,000 Brain Scans Reveal
Across 200,000 brain scans, neuroscientist Paul Thompson keeps finding the body: weight, hormones, sleep and food all show up in the brain, and some changes fade with treatment. Here's what holds up, what's overstated, and what's a sales pitch.
Read the story →The Nod That Rewrites You: Chase Hughes's Quiet Trick for Changing Minds
Behavior profiler Chase Hughes says one casual remark can get you to nod, and quietly agree who you are. Here's how his "negative dissociation" and PCP model work, the research behind them, and where his best stories fail a fact-check.
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