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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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  Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.

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  Happier couples tend to give each other the benefit of the doubt. Rather than assuming "My partner doesn't care," they're more likely to consider that the other is tired, distracted, overwhelmed or simply unaware of the impact of their behavior.

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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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Researcher on distributed systems and local-first software at the University of Cambridge; wrote Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

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  If you got into technology to change the world, then thinking about what your technology does to the world is part of the job, not an optional extra.

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  people say that uh you get into tech in order to change the world. If you want to change the world, then thinking about the impact that your technologies have on the world is part of your job.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  Crossing to Safety

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  Stegner's last, great work is an understated, closely observed portrait of the relationship between two couples.

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American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.

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  Americans tend to be aggressive yet thin-skinned, sure of their own rightness while doubting everyone else.

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  Americans are mean, but fragile. Bullies, but babies. They are right, always, but also skeptical of every one else.

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Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

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  Merlin Suit

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  Merlin Suit: I dunno what Merlin knows about babies but this sleeping suit is a MIRACLE.

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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.

  Falling Fertility Is Not About Opportunity Costlymanstone.substack.com

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

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  Where men and women are kept apart, couples form late because it is hard to find somebody you actually like.

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  With few opportunities to mix and mingle, charm and bond, it’s difficult to find someone one actually likes.

  Why are Marriage & Fertility Plummeting in MENA?ggd.world

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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  Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies

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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

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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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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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  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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  From the 1960s, US fertility fell primarily due to fewer births among couples. In that context, baby bonuses might raise fertility. But today, the major contributing factor is the decline of coupling.

  Why is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?ggd.world

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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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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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  What Your Professor Thinks You Already Know About US Politics

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  I forget (again!) how I chanced across it, but it fills a very real need for a lot of the students in my inequality class, and I intend to make it recommended/optional reading in the future. (I'll have to see if the library can buy a digital copy.)

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Writer and illustrator behind Wait But Why, a long-form blog of stick-figure-illustrated explainers on science, technology and society, and author of the book What's Our Problem?

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  Evolution made human babies effectively premature, since bipedalism shrank pelvises while brains grew larger, forcing late fetal development outside the womb.

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  The problem is, when humans went bipedal, our pelvises got smaller, and as humans got smarter, our heads got bigger. So evolution had to get creative. Its solution: all human babies would be premies, born when they were still small enough to pass through a human pelvis.

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Designer, product manager, YouTuber and developer who has written about technology at Birchtree since 2010. He makes the Quick Reviews and Quick Notes apps and the A Better Computer YouTube channel.

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  Petey

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  The app costs a few dollars up front and then has an optional subscription for unlimited requests, but I would recommend going directly to OpenAI’s developer dashboard, creating your own account, and copy/pasting your own API key into Petey.

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