The Chronicle

The planet’s ecosystem collapses, creating a mass extinction event. Only the very wealthy and well provided can survive. Industry fails....

I’ve been playing the game Pharaoh over the last few days, where the goal is to make a functional and prosperous Egyptian city, striving...

In this subsection of Steven Pinker’s book on rationality, he’s introducing delayed gratification, and discussing the concept of...

S—- mentioned, if he bets on anything, even if it’s just $1, he becomes emotionally invested in the outcome. It reminded me how money...

The Psychology Of Money argues “happiness is just results minus expectations,” during a chapter emphasizing the importance of “enough.”...

Mastering the Clinical Conversation; Fostering Meaning and Motivation A person who values “acting with compassion,” may find meaning in...

Thursday, Jan 9, we matched on bumble. She opens by saying, “Hope you’ve had a great week and enjoying the sunshine! ☺️” I reply, “Hey...

A psychologist Emily Pronin writes about the “illusion of asymmetrical insight.” Given a list of uncompleted words, like TOU_ _, ATT_ ,...

The other night, the family was playing a card game that would prompt you to tell a memory: “The time I felt most at ease was…” or “one...

Malcom Gladwell leads Talking with Strangers with an anecdote of the confusion between Cortes and Montezuma in 1519 when they first...

Malcolm Gladwell writes about the importance of concerted practice related to becoming an expert: it takes 10,000 hours of deliberate...

…His attendance would have “a tendency to sweep me back into the ride of public affairs.“ Ron Chernow George Washington’s fame after the...

Experts can earnestly tell a lie that they have convinced themselves is true, just because it was an easy-to-believe, coherent story that...

Dan discussed depletion concerning temptation: how, when we are cognitively occupied or exhausted, we succumb to temptation easier than...

This book, Galileo’s Middle Finger, is a fascinating non-fiction read about a historian diving into smear campaigns to uncover the truth...

A beautiful, fit woman, my age, is jogging along the sidewalk as I begin to exit from the van’s ramp. She pauses, allowing for me. I stop...

I either do it and get rejected, or I don’t do it and have to live with the regret. I have walked away from these situations so many...

A veritable paradise of a park, teeming with bees, butterflies, dragonflies, squirrels, crows, geese, ducks, nutria and several solitary,...

My focus is split between the massive rave on stage, taking in an absolutely mind-numbing bass-line that makes your brain shake, and this...

Dan Ariely made an experiment where participants made Bionicle figures in exchange for money, with the payout decreasing each time. They...

Bernoulli argued: an increase of $10 for someone whose wealth is $100, is the same as a gain of $20 for someone who has $200. That’s why...

“Can I get a gin and tonic, in a tall glass?” “Gin and tonic?” He nods. He grabs a glass and starts to fiddle around behind the bar. “You...

I always lose games of chicken with bumble bees. I watch the incoming missile hook a quick left, swirling like it’s namesake, eye-level...

DJ Super Chicken compiles a mixtape of some of his favorite songs. Strung together using Audacity. https://soundcloud.com/ogsuperchicken/...