Unrequited Love Hurts Like Addiction, but Science Shows a Way Out
Unrequited love is romantic attraction that the other person does not return, and the research I could verify says it … Read more
Psychology
Brave New World Revisited Gets Key Facts Wrong, Yet Still Feels Urgent
Is Brave New World Revisited still worth reading in 2027? Yes, though not because Huxley forecast the future well. He … Read more
Vibe by Adam Grant Review Shows Why Chemistry Fails and How to Fix It
Vibe by Adam Grant is a 2026 book that answers one stubborn question: why do some people click instantly while … Read more
Inside the Box Summary, a Smart Case for Limits That Oversells Itself
Does more freedom really make you more creative? Inside the Box, David Epstein’s 2026 follow-up to Range, says no, and … Read more
Maintaining Adult Friendships Is Hard, and It’s Mostly Not Your Fault
Maintaining adult friendships is hard because the conditions that once made friendship effortless, such as daily proximity, endless free time … Read more
7 Signs a Friendship Is Ending Quietly, and How to Save the Good Ones
The signs a friendship is ending are rarely loud. There is usually no argument, no final message, no door slammed. … Read more
The Savage Mind: A Reckoning with America’s Violent Legacy
The Savage Mind is not a metaphor. It is a diagnosis. In his most personal and ambitious book to date, … Read more
The Anatomy of Melancholy Summary, a Messy 1621 Cure for Overthinking
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a 1621 book by Robert Burton, an Oxford scholar and clergyman, that tries to explain … Read more
As a Man Thinketh Summary, Right About Habits, Wrong About Suffering
As a Man Thinketh is a short 1903 essay by the English writer James Allen that argues one thing with … Read more
Rethinking Positive Thinking Summary, Why Dreaming Big Keeps You Stuck
Rethinking Positive Thinkingis Gabriele Oettingen’s 2014 book arguing that the happy daydreams we are told to cultivate actually drain the … Read more
The Game of Life and How to Play It Gets Fear Right, and Health Wrong
The Game of Life and How to Play It is Florence Scovel Shinn’s 1925 self-help classic that turned the Bible … Read more
The Pathology of Normalcy Proves Normal Can Be Sick, and Offers a Cure
The Pathology of Normalcy is Erich Fromm’s short, unsettling argument that a person can be perfectly adjusted to society and … Read more
Pay Attention by David Pakman Review, a Grim Truth With a Real Way Out
Pay Attention by David Pakman is the rare book about the attention economy written by someone who is paid by … Read more
The Expectation Effect Summary and Review, Where the Science Wobbles
The Expectation Effect is David Robson’s 2022 science book arguing that what you expect from a pill, a workout, a … Read more
Enlightenment Now Review, Pinker’s Data Wins and His History Stumbles
Enlightenment Now is Steven Pinker’s 2018 argument that the world has become dramatically better since the 18th century, and that … Read more
Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace That Refuses to Die
Cults in Our Midst: The Hidden Menace in Our Everyday Lives by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich is a … Read more
Artificial Intimacy Review, Turkle’s Brilliant Warning on Fake Empathy
Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines by Sherry Turkle is the most unsettling book I have … Read more
Some Slow Pacing but Historic Triumphs in Glory 1989 Movie Review
Do you know why the American Civil War still dictates our social debates today? The Glory 1989 film tells the … Read more
The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict by Priya Parker , My Deep Review
Priya Parker’s The Art of Fighting: The Transformative Power of Conflict makes a deceptively simple but radically uncomfortable argument: your … Read more
The Crowd by Gustave Le Bon: Why You’re Smarter Alone
I read Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind expecting to be a dusty Victorian relic. … Read more
Propaganda Book by Edward Bernays Review: 5 Ways He Predicted Social Media in 1928
Propaganda book by Edward Bernays is one of the most influential and unsettling books ever written about public opinion, mass … Read more