Why Stupidity Can Be More Dangerous Than Evil, According to Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Calling someone stupid usually means one of two things. Maybe they failed an exam. Maybe they tried to assemble IKEA…
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Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto: The Decentralization of Superintelligence
For most of the AI era, the loudest questions have been about intelligence. How smart will AI become? Will it surpass…
Why Do We Age? Evolution Never Needed Us to Live Forever
Human beings are remarkably bad at accepting terms and conditions. We click “I agree” on software licenses without reading them,…
The Reputation Afterlife: Why Shameless Confidence Can Outlive Competence
Some people can spend an entire evening replaying a mildly awkward sentence they said seven years ago. They remember the…
Infinite vs. Finite Games: Are You Playing Life to Win or to Keep Playing?
It is a surprisingly common experience. We spend years believing that happiness waits behind the next achievement: a promotion, a…
The Seduction of Certainty: Cognitive Closure
Ask five people why a company is failing, and you may receive five different answers. The CEO is incompetent. The…
The Psychology of Doomscrolling: Why Your Brain Can’t Stop Scrolling
“I’ll just check my phone for a minute.” Thirty minutes later, you’ve somehow learned about a volcanic eruption, a celebrity…
The Psychology of Gacha: Why Humans Love Paying for Random Rewards
“It’s just one more pull.” Those five words have probably emptied more wallets than any luxury brand ever could. Of…
Sony Is Ending Physical Games, but Digital Ownership Is the Real Problem.
Sony has announced that it will stop producing physical discs for new PlayStation games beginning in January 2028. Naturally, the…
Human Extinction Series: Extinction by Exhaustion
There is a strange phenomenon happening around the world. Countries are richer than ever. Medicine is better than ever. We…
Homo Ludens: Life Is a Game with No Tutorial
Human beings have been given many impressive names. Homo sapiens means the wise human, which already feels slightly optimistic considering how…
Why Are So Many Games Doing IP Collaborations? The Business Strategy Behind Video Game Crossovers
At first glance, these collaborations seem like fan service—a fun way to let players dress up as their favorite characters.…
Gen Z Work Ethic: Why Young Workers Are Rejecting Corporate Culture
I know plenty of younger people who have little interest in the traditional corporate package: commuting every morning, sitting in…
The End of Startup Fantasy: Unicorns, Unit Economics, and Other Imaginary Creatures
There was a time, not very long ago, when working at a startup sounded like joining the future before everyone…
Esports Has 400 Million Gen Z Fans and a Business Model That Still Barely Works
A new esports study has arrived with a wonderfully large number attached to it. According to The Esports Generation: Who They…
The Physics of Time Travel: Wormholes, Paradoxes, and Black Holes
Time travel is one of humanity’s favorite bad ideas. We have spent decades imagining phone booths, modified DeLoreans, glowing portals,…
AI-Generated Video Sounds Efficient. Reality Is More Expensive
When companies like iQiyi talk about using AI to produce the majority of their content within the next five years,…
The World Happiness Report 2026: Turns Out, We’re Complicated
Let’s start with a comforting thought: humanity, as a whole, is actually doing… okay. Not “everything is perfect” okay. More…
The Reality of Modern Youth, According to Scientific Data
If you only read headlines, you’d think modern kids are one TikTok away from societal collapse. Low attention spans. No…
Human Extinction Series: The Next World War
For most people living in stable countries, the idea of a world war still feels distant. Something from history books.…