I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
Apparently, somewhere in Spain, a physicist woke up and chose chaos. How so? By proving that humans, across cultures, ages, and continents, cannot for the life of us walk in a straight line. We drift left. Universally. Our feet drift left. Like some subtle, collective lean toward mischief […]
There is a very specific kind of problem no one warns you about in adulthood. That is becoming too well-loved at your favorite bar or restaurant. You know the place. They know your name. They know your drink. They know how you like your food. You like extra […]
In what might be the greatest psychological experiment no one meant to run, an Icelandic TV station accidentally aired a children’s show with subtitles from The Sopranos. Not just any scene. The intervention scene.For Christopher. Now imagine, if you will—, weet, bouncy, technicolor innocence from Teletubbies. Laa-Laa. Po. […]
Apparently, new research suggests that leaders who oppose remote work may have higher levels of narcissism. The theory? They crave attention. Validation. The admiring gaze of employees nodding in conference rooms and laughing just a little too hard at their jokes. And listen, I love a good psychological […]
This Fourth of July, I celebrated freedom the old-fashioned way: by accidentally achieving it. Not metaphorical freedom. Not “out of office but secretly checking Slack every 11 minutes” freedom. I mean full-blown, Founding Fathers would weep, unreachable freedom. I went on a family trip. I saw relatives I […]
I am increasingly convinced that my dog has a severe case of FOMO. Not mild. Not occasional. I’m talking full-blown, body-check-you-on-the-stairs, “no one leaves without me” levels of fear of missing out. If there is movement toward a door, he is there. If a shoe is being put […]
There is a new trend out of South Korea that feels both deeply innovative and slightly existential. They are called dopamine sites. You browse. You select. You add to cart. A courier accepts your order.You can even track the delivery in real time. And then nothing arrives. It […]
Fourteen years ago, I started a blog with absolutely no plan. No content calendar.No brand strategy.No “voice and tone” guide approved by a committee of people who say things like “circle back.” Just vibes. And yet, here we are. Fourteen years later. Still typing. Still observing. Still mildly […]
Somewhere between “please give me grace” and “please give me a break,” there exists a tiny linguistic battlefield where adults with too much time on their hands argue about whether you can gift someone something. And I would just like to say, as a licensed user of words […]
This may be the most 2026 headline we get all year. A DoorDash delivery robot wandered into an active SWAT scene and refused to evacuate. Of course it did. Why wouldn’t it? The robot has no amygdala. No anxiety. No “maybe I should not be here while heavily […]
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