A totally fictional — but simultaneously true! — portrayal of one Irish elk’s experience with uncertainty, mimicry, envy, and burnout … More
Author: zandercutt
Mistaking correlation for causation since '94. Big pattern guy. Appearances in TNW, MediaREDEF, Extra Newsfeed. 👦San Rafael, CA. 🎓Kenyon College '16. 🧓Chicago, IL.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
