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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  By early childhood, girls already perceive boys as academically inferior to themselves, while teachers rate girls as academically superior even when test scores show the opposite.

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  By four years of age, girls tend to think that boys are academically inferior to them. Teachers often see their female students as academically superior, even when aptitude tests show the opposite pattern for their classes.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  While the money premium from college is falling, the friends and marriage premium from college is going up and will rise further.

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  while the money premium from college is falling, the friends and marriage premium from college is going up and probably will rise further still.

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Turkey's sudden fertility collapse after 2013 was caused by a collapse in marriage, not by married couples choosing fewer children.

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  It just is marriage. Turkish fertility started falling super fast after 2013 because Turkish marriage rates started falling super fast after 2013.

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Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

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  The sequel to Inspired, this book explores what the best product companies have in common. “Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and create extraordinary products.”

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  Competing Against Luck

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  Christensen explores one of his approaches to combating the Innovator’s Dilemma:

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Demographer; writes on fertility, marriage and population, and directs the Pro-Family Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies.

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  Something is broken in how people pair up in the West, and that shortage of couples and marriages, not money, is why there are too few children.

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  The empirical evidence strongly refutes the idea that rising opportunity costs of childbearing are driving low fertility. Declining marriage due to exogenous technology and economics shocks is tanking fertility irrespective of child direct or opportunity costs.

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Head of growth at Chess.com, previously growth and monetization lead at Grammarly and Duolingo and a product manager at Google.

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  A growth team that only explores turns scattershot, and one that only exploits saturates — the job is to keep oscillating between the two.

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  If you do too much exploration, you can have your team feel a little bit too scattershot, just trying a 100 different random ideas. What's the through line? What's the strategy? How do you pattern match, you know, successes across them? And if you do too much in exploitation, which is often the MMO of growth teams, it can lead to this like saturation and stagnation where you're just locally maximizing a thing.

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Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  Medullary bone does not let palaeontologists tell male dinosaurs from female ones — only laying females from everything else.

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  So the instant assumption is, okay, so you can tell female from male. No, we can tell laying female from everything else. So males won't have medullary bone. Young females won't have them. Females outside of the breeding season won't have it.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us

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  Roberts reflects on the wild problems we face in our lives and how to navigate them—like career changes, marriage, or children—that can't be solved on a spreadsheet.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

From one piece Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Marriage survives in South Asia because families arrange it and divorce is taboo, not because men and women mix more freely there.

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  Thus, even if cross-gender friendships are few and far between, South Asian families still consolidate and preserve nuptials.

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  Falling birth rates ended cousin marriage in the Arab world by leaving too few cousins, pushing marriage onto individual choice.

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  But over the past 50 years, there has been a massive decline in fertility. This entails fewer cousins of a suitable age.

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  Marriage and birth rates are collapsing across the Middle East and North Africa even though religiosity there has not weakened.

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  The Middle East, North Africa and Anatolia are witnessing a rapid decline in coupling and fertility. This should rock your priors.

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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

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  Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

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  Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers

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  Best books I read in 2024: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers by Marissa A. Harrison

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Venture capitalist and founder of Theory Ventures, previously a partner at Redpoint. Writes a near-daily blog on startups, SaaS metrics, data and AI.

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  The New Map

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  Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin explores the changing landscape of energy, geopolitics, & climate change.

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Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.

From one piece Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Rising female autonomy cannot be the cause of falling birth rates, because births have collapsed just as fast in countries where women's freedom is heavily restricted.

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  Nicolas Eberstadt speculates that it’s all about rising autonomy. But that can’t explain why fertility has also plummeted in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and India, where women are often heavily restricted.

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  Personalised online entertainment has got good enough to crowd out socialising, and with it the forming of couples.

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  My suspicion is that massive improvement in quality of online entertainment crowd out socialising and development of social skills, possibly hurting relationship formation as well as desire for children within marriage.

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Monetary economist known for NGDP-level targeting. Wrote TheMoneyIllusion until it closed in 2024 and now writes The Pursuit of Happiness.

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  Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint

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  Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint (Germany, 2019, CC) 3.6 When thinking about the most overlooked female artist, Artemesia Gentileschi often comes to mind. This documentary makes a persuasive case for Hilma af Klint. To my eyes, her most appealing works are not the large scale abstractions, rather it’s the small Klee-like gems that stand out. Don’t assume that if you have seen a half dozen of her most famous works that you have any conception of her overall career.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  Nothing to Hide

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  Mind candy thriller, somehow equally about a serial killer and about secrets in marriage. (Previously in this series.)

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Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.

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  Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

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  The secret pulse-beat of joy is what Jean-François Beauchemin explores in Archives of Joy: Reflections on Animals and the Nature of Being

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  The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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  That is what cognitive philosopher Andy Clark explores in The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

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  How to Say Goodbye

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  How to move through it is what my talented friend and sometime-collaborator Wendy MacNaughton explores in How to Say Goodbye

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Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

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  The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work

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  Terry shares five non-starters to avoid and practical strategies for bringing honesty, passion, and joy back to even the most difficult relationship.

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  How Can I Get Through to You?: Reconnecting Men and Women

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  How Can I Get Through to You? explores the causes of communication blocks between men and women.

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Economist; Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, and Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2013 to 2017.

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  Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It

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  Although his training is not in economics, Richard Reeves draws on economic research, as well as research from the fields of sociology, psychology, and political science, to tell an under-told story. The book explores the problems faced by boys and men, the roots of those problems, and possible policy solutions.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Relationship Handbook

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  Best philosophy of love relationships I’ve ever found. Like meditation teaches you that moods pass, this experienced marriage counselor says this applies to relationship communication as well. When angry or insecure, don’t vent, don’t share that. Let the feeling pass. Your anger doesn’t reveal some real truth. Everyone in a romantic relationship should read this.

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