>"Consciousness is something so mysterious that we still find it notoriously difficult to understand or even define."

“What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem—and what do either have to do with Silicon Valley?”

>"Everything happens for no reason."

>"The real motivation of respectable progressivism is managing guilty conscience and conserving bourgeois privileges."

>"Be the person you want to live with every day of your life."

>"It's difficult to predict the negative impacts of an idea or invention, but certain frameworks can help entrepreneurs  see a little bit further."

>"New research in psychology and political science reveals just how deep our anxieties about others lie."

“Glamorous influencers are blending science and superstition to help people “change their relationship to drinking.” Did I miss out by getting sober the old-fashioned way?”

>"Elif Batuman’s curious experiment in fiction"

"It is surely true that romance can exploit existing power imbalances, but the old story was that romance also created these imbalances, delivering one soul for another to prey on. That old story got something uncomfortably right."

" A New York furniture designer who was effectively doxxed by a number of women on TikTok for the fairly commonplace crime of having ghosted them after one or two dates."

"“Gender antagonism” denotes a measure of the prevalence and inten­sity of resentment that people within a certain population feel towards any generalized ideas of _...Read More_

"They seem empathetic at first—but there's darkness under the surface."

Especially important read given how consumed we are with the beautiful lives people live on social media. Don't let others define you.