12 2024 November
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Win Bigly – Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don’t Matter | 2nd Edition, by Scott Adams
Back in 2017, I selected this book as a winner in our Non-Obvious Book Awards program that year because of how perfectly it described a...
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04 2024 November
The Forgotten Silence of Childless Men
At several points over the past few years, I’ve showcased a story about women who make the personal choice not to have children. Usually, their...
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08 2024 October
The Non-Obvious Book of the Week: Stuff – Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee
How much stuff is enough? Most of us would agree that compulsive hoarding crosses a line, but how common is it exactly and what can...
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27 2024 September
This Chatbot Could Actually Change Minds … Using Facts?!
The prevailing wisdom about human behaviors and beliefs today is that facts are not persuasive in changing minds or shifting beliefs. Usually, it’s true. That’s...
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27 2024 March
Do You Have the Right to Recline in a Crowded Airplane Economy Seat?
Seat reclining does not improve your leg room. That’s just one of the underappreciated truths about airplane seats that seems like it needs to be...
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06 2024 March
Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out and the Crisis of Social Fitness
A long read last week from The Atlantic offered this viral headline – Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out. Around the same time, I came across...
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How Bad News Might Be Making Us Worse Humans
We might all be getting addicted to bad news. I was thinking about this point as I considered my own reactions to two other disturbing stories...
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The Gen Z Gender Divide
For all the research and articles you might have read about the habits and beliefs from one generation to the next, one assumption has remained...
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How the “TikTok Voice” Could Help You Be a Better Communicator
Uptalk. It’s the vocal quirk that makes every sentence sound like a question and it’s something you are regularly taught to avoid. It’s also a...
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Behind Netflix’s First-Ever Big Data Release and What We Watched In 2023
The Night Agent was the most popular show globally on Netflix over the past year and 30% of all viewing was non-English programming. 55% of...
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15 Non-Obvious Holiday Gifts To Buy This Black Friday
Today is Black Friday, a day that has earned a negative reputation as an unnecessary celebration of excess consumerism. Economists predict consumers will be in a bargain...
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The Dark Side of “Sharenting” (And Why You Should Avoid Posting About Your Kids On Social Media)
European telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom launched a campaign using deepfakes to scare parents into being more careful about what they share online. The effort is meant...
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Will Humans Inevitably Turn Faith in AI Into a Religion?
Imagine a future where AI was all-knowing and all-understanding. These are abilities humans have typically ascribed to Gods worthy of worship. Soon, they may also...
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