How Falling Down Can Lead to Waking Up: Learning from Loss and Pain
Falling is often a life-changer; observations from someone who is adjusting.
Read more...Falling is often a life-changer; observations from someone who is adjusting.
Read more...How urban people routinely sneer at their country cousins.
Read more...Yves here. Having spent time in the South, in general, Northerners carry huge class prejudice against Southerns. The same way a British accent is worth 20 attributed IQ points, a Southern accent is an attributed reduction of about 10 points. The Southerns I know who are not treated that way are people who managed to […]
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Read more...The idea that people are attached to the places where they live has been ignored by economists and politicians, to their peril.
Read more...“Welfare” as a case study in political positioning.
Read more...Amazon is being its vicious self yet again, now at Whole Foods.
Read more...The Democrats are increasingly cocky as potential voters become more and more angry over their pro-Establishment policies.
Read more...Sometimes social engineering is easier than you think, as a new study on income incentives and recidivism shows.
Read more...How black business owners helped support the Civil Rights campaign in the US.
Read more...Institutions are widely viewed as a fundamental cause of economic performance. But what are the causes of institutions?
Read more...A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
Read more...Thoughts on the social media and the “dopamine loop”, and the role of the software engineer in creating it.
Read more...Americans are particularly leery of thinking about, let alone talking about, death. Some people are trying to change that.
Read more...Perfectionism is rising among the young, and that’s not a good thing.
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