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…
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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.…
What Truly Shapes National Pride
Ask people what makes them proud of their country and you might expect grand answers: economic power, political influence, technological…
Human Extinction Series: The Age of Waste
Human extinction usually comes with great marketing. Asteroids.Nuclear war.AI rebellions with glowing red eyes. Big, cinematic endings that make us…
Reading and Listening: Are We Losing These Skills?
“People don’t read anymore.”“People don’t listen anymore.” These complaints feel distinctly modern, as if attention itself collapsed somewhere between smartphones…
AI and Humans: The Third Relationship
We are starting to do something humans have never done before. Not in a dramatic, science-fiction way. In a quiet,…
Uncertainty as a Truth: The Heisenberg Principle Through the Lens of Philosophy
In 1927, Werner Heisenberg published what would become one of the most profound and disruptive ideas in the history of…
The Chicken and Egg Question—and the Illusion of Time and Perception
It starts with a deceptively simple question:Which came first — the chicken or the egg? At face value, it feels…