Psychology
Culture
Science fiction writers and filmmakers called AI, mass surveillance, deepfakes, and social credit decades before we had names for them — and the rest of us were busy being entertained by the warnings
Culture
Dismissing conspiracy theorists is its own kind of intellectual laziness — because the last fifty years are full of cases where the “crazy” minority was reading the room more accurately than the experts
Culture
Tokyo isn’t the future anymore — it’s the future 1980s pop culture promised us, perfectly preserved, while Seoul, Shenzhen, and Dubai have spent the last decade building the version that comes after
Psychology
Quote by Kobe Bryant: “The biggest mistake we make in life is thinking we have time”
Psychology
People comfortable saying “I don’t know” may have a more honest relationship with intelligence
Psychology
One sign happiness is becoming quieter is when other people’s lives stop feeling like a scoreboard
Psychology
An argument can lose its grip when you no longer need the other person to admit you were right
Psychology
Watching a father change in his 60s and 70s can make you wonder which version of him was there all along
Psychology
Adult siblings can drift apart without either person choosing it, until neither knows how to start again
Psychology
I’m 38 and I noticed last week that my mother and I have started having the same conversation in two parts — the first one happens on the phone, and the second one happens in my head twenty minutes after we hang up, where I finally say what I actually wanted to say, and she finally hears it
Moon Daily
I spent years convinced the moon landing was faked — and the single piece of evidence that changed my mind isn’t one most conspiracy debunkers ever bring up
Psychology
I’m 38 and I have rarely felt fully at home anywhere — and in my mid-thirties I started wondering whether the feeling came from the places or from how I learned to live inside them
Psychology
I’m 38 and I often feel neither fully happy nor fully sad — and I started wondering whether that flatness was something I learned early
Psychology
People who came of age in the 1960s and 70s may carry a fluency in human connection that is harder for the current world to teach
Psychology