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Zander Nethercutt

San Rafael, CA | Kenyon College | Chicago, IL

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The Darwinian Science Behind the Burnout Generation

Runaway, unwinnable competition for social status puts us all in a killer race to the bottom. In his book, The…

burnout, darwin, evolution

South Dakota’s Smarter than You

The endlessly condescending sharing of their recent campaign against meth abuse is exactly the point. Yesterday, South Dakota released an…

advertising, drug abuse, evolution, psychology

Evolutionary Biology is the Key to Solving Climate Change

The age-old, reproductively-driven quest for status explains why efforts to combat climate change have failed. It also illustrates a path forward.…

climate change, evolution, fisherian runaway, tesla

How Sexual Selection — Not Natural Selection — Explains Opulence in Nature and Society

Branding — in business and in nature — isn’t going away To use the analogy of the needle in the haystack, more data does increase the…

branding, darwin, data, evolution, Marketing, natural selection, sexual selection

Competition Won’t Fix Big Tech

Antitrust regulators should block natural monopolies from acquiring their biggest threats: new potential monopolies “All happy companies are different: each…

Antitrust, Apple, Facebook, google, Monopoly, Tech

We’re Optimizing Ourselves to Death

Burnout is the inevitable result of our endlessly accelerating pace of life Author’s Note: I’ve recently partnered with Project DigInThere, an…

burnout, Millennials, nash equilibrium, prisoner's dilemma

This Christmas, Let’s Agree To Stop Glorifying Gift-Giving

A humble argument for the cash gift “Wait, Dale got Hulk Hands?” — Brennan Huff, Step Brothers Christmas is here again.…

christmas, foreign aid, gifts, holidays, shopping

The World Is on a Collision Course With Itself

Almost 200 years ago, in 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his now famous journey aboard the S.S. Beagle. This was…

anonymity, darwin, evolution, trolling

Evolution Has Already Approved of Everything You’ll Do Tomorrow

Darwin’s theories illustrate the improbability of the present and the unknowability of the future “Each and every one of us has…

approval, darwin, evolution, natural selection

We’re Primed to Be Addicted to Social Media

Networks are the internet’s black holes, and trolls are its dark energy   nor·mie /nôrmē/ noun noun: normie; plural noun: normies…

Facebook, instagram, Internet, social media, space, trolling, twitter

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