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Zander Nethercutt

San Rafael, CA | Kenyon College | Chicago, IL

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Mistaking correlation for causation since '94. Big pattern guy. Appearances in TNW, MediaREDEF, Extra Newsfeed. 👦San Rafael, CA. 🎓Kenyon College '16. 🧓Chicago, IL.

Size Matters: A Girardian Tale of Burnout

A totally fictional — but simultaneously true! — portrayal of one Irish elk’s experience with uncertainty, mimicry, envy, and burnout … More

burnout, fiction, silicon valley, startup, Tech

We Are All The Burnout Generation

Fueled by uncertainty and envy, burnout is a condition that is both uniquely human and profoundly misunderstood “It’s not greed … More

burnout, directionless, exhaustion, technology

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 … More

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 … More

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. … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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. … More

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 … More

anonymity, darwin, evolution, trolling

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