We’ve built a society on bullshit and emojis.: ‘Today’s reality is the result of actively practicing and engaging in pseudo humanity.’
Psychology
2025-04-09
2025-03-19
Have humans passed peak brain power?: ‘Data across countries and ages reveal a growing struggle to concentrate, and declining verbal and numerical reasoning’.
2025-03-16
We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.
2025-03-10: Sisyphus 55 onthe relationship between the modern-day internet and Carl Jung’s notion of …
2025-03-06
Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced: One way to cope when the world goes bad.
2025-02-15
I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own: Humans just hate boredom; our modern world being full of distractions doesn’t help.
2025-02-01: 📺 Watched Grieving Mother: AI was the Stranger in my Home.
2025-01-20
New Year, same American violence: America is a ‘culturally violent place’, as well as having far too many guns of course.
2024-12-25
Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It’s a Big Surprise: Apparently our brains process information at the minuscule rate of 10 bits per second - to be fair I regularly feel like a 1970s computer could best me.
2024-12-18
This is My Most Expensive Habit: Anxiety.
2024-12-08
Smartphones don’t suck. People do: We shouldn’t let our phones bore us so often.
2024-12-04
leadership: ‘…the single most important trait of a good leader is the ability to listen to someone who has less power than you do about the ways in which you’ve fucked up’
2024-11-26
The far right grows through “disaster fantasies”: Their prioritisation of imaginary disasters that require individual solutions over real disasters that need collective action.
2024-11-13: I’m reluctant to volunteer my own evidence-free theory into the morass of folk providing …
2024-11-12
‘Five to ten seconds appears to be optimal’: the science behind hugs: Why hugs are good.
2024-10-27: Tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical …
2024-10-23: Two types of information overload: the situational vs the ambient
2024-10-17: It is a battle evident in the psyche of many partnered people, and especially so in midlife. It …
2024-10-03
The Riddle of Ambition: Don’t commoditise your ambition - use it to know yourself.
2024-09-26
A battle with the gods: Exercising creativity is difficult, but forgoing the attempt may be even worse.
2024-09-18
‘Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?': A less widely-known Milgram experiment - asking someone to let you have their subway seat.
2024-07-23: Think about your actual rather than idealised office when deciding whether to go into work
2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'
2024-06-02: 📚 Finished reading Lost in a Good Game by Pete Etchells.
2024-03-07: The day Replika lobotomised everyone's AI girlfriend