Longer reads that connect dots others miss — across psychology, technology, and culture.
The brands earning durable loyalty stopped competing at the moment of purchase and started competing in everything the customer does with it afterward
Most Tesla owners probably aren’t flooring it at every light — and the car may be built for exactly the driving they actually do
Companies using Claude Fable 5 should know their data is being retained for 30 days with no opt-out, including enterprise plans — Anthropic says it is a condition of using the model
The flywheel effect — a well-known concept in platform economics — helps explain how YouTube became dominant and why Meta may be falling behind
The lower-middle class isn’t bad with money — they’re paying a tax the wealthy never see, just for living close enough to want what they can’t quite reach
Are Netflix documentaries real? What the gap between “based on true events” and actual truth is quietly doing to how we form opinions
I’ve interviewed 50 people who came of age before mobile phones and a surprising number of them say they’re still not sure constant availability has made friendships feel closer
I’ve asked 100 people about their relationship with television and the answers often had more to do with loneliness, ritual, and comfort than anyone wanted to admit
I’ve talked to 60 people who were the calm one in a chaotic household growing up — and many of them said they spent a long time not realizing that keeping the room quiet had come at a cost
I’ve interviewed 100 people about their relationship with a parent who never said sorry — and almost all of them had eventually stopped waiting
