The age-old, reproductively-driven quest for status explains why efforts to combat climate change have failed. It also illustrates a path forward.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
The Approval Economy
Why every purchase is a performance “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I…
The Market Is Catching Up to You
From soccer to Chipotle, everything we do is shaped by economics The FIFA World Cup, and specifically the penalty-kick-heavy match…
