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Marriage is getting rarer, older, and more stable. Consider the typical 25-year old American woman. If she was born in 1940, she had an 80 percent chance of being married. If born in the 1990, she had a ~20 percent chance of being married.

The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)

The indefinite pessimist can’t know whether the inevitable decline will be fast or slow, catastrophic or gradual. All he can do is wait for it to happen, so he might as well eat, drink, and be merry in the meantime: hence Europe’s famous vacation mania.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

Regardless of how exactly one generates theories of other people's minds, it's clear that these theories profoundly affect moral decisions. Look, for example, at the ultimatum game, a staple of experimental economics. The rules of the game are simple, if a little bit unfair: an experimenter pairs two people together, and hands one of them ten

Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide

Huebner found that while the total number of innovations rose in the twentieth century, the number of innovations per capita peaked in the nineteenth century.

Saifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

Americans tend to use new productivity and technology to buy a better life rather than to enjoy more downtime in inferior conditions.

Derek Thompson • Three Theories for Why You Have No Time

Do You Know What Your Time Is Really Worth

What is your time really worth?

It is a day-to-day trade-off. We are constantly confronted with opportunities to save time by paying more money, and vice versa. Should you send out your laundry? Take the faster, more expensive flight or train? Do additional freelancing or consulting work? Now, more than

Psychologists recommend that you ask your friend to fill in the blanks to these two statements: “In our family, the one thing you must never do is _____” and “In our family, the one thing you must do above all else is ________.”

David Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

The Great Diminishment has several causes. (The internet, social media, apathy, etc., all play a role. I’ve written more about how “everyone is numbing out.”) But a big cause is what I’ll call the “venture capitalization” of culture, where as much cost is squeezed out of every nook and cranny as possible, while prices remain the same or higher. You... See more

Catherine Shannon • The Great Diminishment

Thomas Malthus’ An Essay on the Principle of Population