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Xi Jinping has been known to loudly reject “welfarism,” which he claims encourages “laziness” in rich societies. From criticizing “lying flat” to relu

“AI anxiety” drives people to compare themselves against fellow workers, rather than orient them towards collective action.

To Wang, this is a crisis of meaning. “A lot of people don’t have … hobbies, let alone a personal value system. … When the system stops promising guar

The two countries’ technological elites are converging much more closely than the geopolitical divide might suggest. That very similarity makes for us

So while AI is viewed as a threat to job security, a possible coping mechanism is to rapidly accept and embrace it, because history has taught the Chi

There wasn’t consensus among those I met on whether China is a good place to live. But everyone described the same deal: you’ll have limited freedom o

Xi Jinping has been known to loudly reject “welfarism,” which he claims encourages “laziness” in rich societies. From criticizing “lying flat” to relu

The two countries’ technological elites are converging much more closely than the geopolitical divide might suggest. That very similarity makes for us

The post-luxury status symbols I’ve outlined across this series - connected privacy, wasteful time, having children, niche expertise, creating communi

One realization I’ve come to in my money relationship journey is that financial security isn’t a set number. It’s really your relationship with “enoug

To Wang, this is a crisis of meaning. “A lot of people don’t have … hobbies, let alone a personal value system. … When the system stops promising guar

It did not seem like a good idea to me that some of the richest people in the world were no longer rewarding people for having any particular skills,

We tend to assign different meanings and values to certain relationships, which then flattens the connections we might have. But the truth is that the

It’s important to remember that the people we love are not necessarily the same people with whom we can make a life. Life stories are not the same as

Releasing someone with love is its own kind of confrontation. Maybe the most honest one. There have been relationships I wanted to get released by bec

But our history reveals that love stories are shaped by the world in which we live, and they’ve always come with tradeoffs. We once married people for

The greater the systemic problem, the greater the individual’s responsibility to somehow fix it themselves. This hyper-individualism then also pushes

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2025 profile of homebuyers and sellers, single women now make up 25% of US first-time homebuye

One core feature of masculinities that can lead to problems “is a fear or avoidance of femininity”, he said. Some research has found that men feel an

But joy does not just belong to the young, and if we’re lucky, joy finds us across life’s various stages as we age and change. And even under the most

Zhang Jiansheng, a 36-year-old entrepreneur, created an AI-powered tablet that can speak to people with Alzheimer’s disease. He told me about observin

What does it mean that OpenAI bought a media company? That doesn’t feel like a random acquisition. It feels like a sign that trusted voices, archives,

One core feature of masculinities that can lead to problems “is a fear or avoidance of femininity”, he said. Some research has found that men feel an

A growing body of data shows that men engage in higher rates of infidelity and emotional and physical abuse when outpaced by female partners in tradit

One recent study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that while men in the workplace may view women’s status gains positively, t

It reveals that as a woman in the world, if you don’t decide your needs, they will be decided for you. That without a value system, you can be convinc

If men are this incapable of self-restraint in bed, which, thanks to #MeToo, may now carry consequences, how difficult could it be to defeat them in o

According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) 2025 profile of homebuyers and sellers, single women now make up 25% of US first-time homebuye

Nervous system capacity is the constraint, not logic. You can explain something to someone a thousand times and it probably will not address the funda

I'm a very proud thief and deployer of Stewart Brand's pace layers. Stewart originally used the pace layer model to describe how civilizations hold to

the only thing sadder than not being a rich kid is being a Disney adult

There’s this old Yiddish proverb that says, “Der mentsh trakht un Got lakh.” In English, it translates to: Man plans, God laughs.

he thought about it and said he didn’t think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it

Most supplement brands lead with clinical claims. Grüns deliberately chose a different approach. The company conducted studies and invested in formula

Consumers are paying more attention to macronutrients than ever before. Tracking apps, the GLP-1 drug trend (which pushes users toward higher protein

Chocolate is hardly the only treat to be reborn as a wellness product. Supermarket shelves now boast chips with added protein, gut-friendly sodas and

Functional foods have been around for decades, but are taking off anew. Consumers have become more health-conscious, weight-loss drugs are changing pe

I once spent an unpleasant year studying torture in various countries where it is endemic and I was quickly shocked to learn that torture is not about

The decline of deviance is mainly a good thing. Our lives have gotten longer, safer, healthier, and richer. But the rise of mass prosperity and disapp

It’s almost impossible to have an easy life and be interesting. Suffering is what gives people texture.

Just because you feel something deeply doesn’t make it a deep well of wisdom. Vulnerability is not redeemable on its own. It’s kind of painful to watc

It takes deep psychological work to love the child we have, not the one we imagined or would choose; to listen fully, respect their autonomy and offer

Parenting does not end; it matures. And, like all mature love, it asks for courage: to learn continually, to forgive repeatedly and to show up consist

“You can search and search all your life, but sometimes you need to realise you’ve arrived.”

“So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

Christians believe purgatory exists because of God’s divine mercy, but even here on earth, perhaps the waiting period is more merciful than we realize

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

People who value choices over happiness never argue about it. They are proud of it. People who value happiness over having a life full of interesting

Since Freud, psychologists have distinguished between theories of autoplastic and alloplastic change. With autoplastic change, the problem is the pati

In short: The first half of the twentieth century was about mastering the physical world, the first half of the twenty-first has been about escaping i

Humans are fundamentally conflicted. One of the foundational conflicts in psychology is between self-enhancement, or the desire to feel good about who