Rob Henderson
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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Good technology should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.
That is what good technology should do. It should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.
robkhenderson.comSaid 15 Oct 2026This on korrents
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People may stop caring what others think as they get older.
Maybe people stop caring what others think as they get older.
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That is what good technology should do. It should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.
Social Paradox, Confession, Bedroom Generationrobkhenderson.com
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Maybe people stop caring what others think as they get older.
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There is a tension between the praise for hard work and the contempt for people who visibly do it.Their words
As I will explain, this controversy continues to expose a tension between our praise for hard work and our contempt for people who visibly do it.
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Kindness has to be cultivated, and this only happens when it is in demand.
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From one piece Your Job Gives You More Than Money 2 beliefs · robkhenderson.com
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Finding a new job is the most effective remedy for the psychological harm of unemployment.Their words
But the most powerful remedy for the stress of unemployment is getting back to work.
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Expecting a layoff in advance provides little psychological protection against its effects.Their words
Being mentally prepared didn't provide much protection. The effects of job loss looked remarkably similar.
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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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From one piece Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do 3 beliefs · robkhenderson.com
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A choice exists at the scale of a person thinking, weighing and deciding. Looking at the molecules underneath and finding no choice there doesn't prove that choice is an illusion.
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Treating people as incapable of governing themselves makes it easier to justify governing them without their consent.Their words
once a person is no longer regarded as capable of governing himself, it becomes easier to justify governing him without his consent.
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The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.
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Good technology should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.
That is what good technology should do. It should make your life better without asking you to spend more time thinking about the technology itself.
Social Paradox, Confession, Bedroom Generation Said 15 Oct 2026
People may stop caring what others think as they get older.
Maybe people stop caring what others think as they get older.
You’re Not Who I Thought You Were Said 11 Oct 2026
There is a tension between the praise for hard work and the contempt for people who visibly do it.
As I will explain, this controversy continues to expose a tension between our praise for hard work and our contempt for people who visibly do it.
Is Striving Cringe? Said 8 Oct 2026
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Kindness has to be cultivated, and this only happens when it is in demand
Kindness has to be cultivated, and this only happens when it is in demand.
What Communism Does to Kindness Said 4 Oct 2026
Expecting a layoff in advance provides little psychological protection against its effects.
Being mentally prepared didn't provide much protection. The effects of job loss looked remarkably similar.
Your Job Gives You More Than Money Said 20 Sept 2026
Finding a new job is the most effective remedy for the psychological harm of unemployment.
But the most powerful remedy for the stress of unemployment is getting back to work.
Your Job Gives You More Than Money Said 20 Sept 2026
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.
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.
Dark Forest, Young Men, Blood Boy Said 17 Sept 2026
Denying free will hasn't made society better, it has just given people a more forgiving vocabulary to excuse wrongdoing.
The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.
Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do Said 13 Sept 2026
Treating people as incapable of governing themselves makes it easier to justify governing them without their consent.
once a person is no longer regarded as capable of governing himself, it becomes easier to justify governing him without his consent.
Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do Said 13 Sept 2026
Free will exists at the level of a person's deliberation, so finding no choice in the underlying molecules doesn't disprove it.
A choice exists at the scale of a person thinking, weighing and deciding. Looking at the molecules underneath and finding no choice there doesn't prove that choice is an illusion.
Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do Said 13 Sept 2026
The United States is unusual among nations in letting legacy status influence college admissions.
The United States is the only nation in the world with colleges that use legacy status as a factor in admissions.
Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shock Said 10 Sept 2026
Gay men average more sexual partners than straight men, while lesbians average fewer partners than straight women.
Gay men tend to rack up many more sexual partners than straight men. On the other side, lesbians tend to have fewer partners than straight women, despite the fact that lesbians don't have to worry about accidental pregnancies.
Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shock Said 10 Sept 2026
People who are highly narcissistic do not make the best friends, even if they are popular at first.
People who love themselves the most do not make the best friends.
Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shock Said 10 Sept 2026
A society cannot remove the desire for status, only change what earns it.
We may not be able to remove the desire for status, but we can change what earns status.
Some Status Games Are Worth Playing Said 6 Sept 2026
People sometimes publicly defend ideas and punish dissenters they privately agree with, in order to protect their own reputation.
This is why people can defend ideas they do not truly hold, and punish dissenters they may secretly agree with.
Some Status Games Are Worth Playing Said 6 Sept 2026
In nearly every society, men are killed at higher rates than women, usually by other men.
In almost every society on Earth, men are more likely than women to be murdered. Most of the time, the killer is a man as well.
Bad Strategy, First-World Problems, Heterodox Dating Said 2 Sept 2026
Happier couples respond to a partner's lapses by assuming distraction or tiredness rather than indifference.
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.
Bad Strategy, First-World Problems, Heterodox Dating Said 2 Sept 2026
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Loved Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2025
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Loved Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2025
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Loved A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade
Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2025
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Loved Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
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
robkhenderson.com 22 Dec 2024
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Loved Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers
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
robkhenderson.com 22 Dec 2024
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Loved Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies
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
robkhenderson.com 22 Dec 2024
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Loved A Personal Odyssey
A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell My review here . Insights into the mindset required to climb out of poverty and remake one’s fortunes. A countervailing perspective from the above Orwell work.
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2023
Loved Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell This lesser known book from Orwell offers an illuminating glimpse into the arrogant, entitled, and self-pitying mindset of downwardly mobile elites.
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2023
Loved The Cold War: A New History
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2023
Loved The Two-Parent Privilege
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna The Two-Parent Privilege by Melissa S. Kearney
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2023
Loved A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
Best books I read in 2023: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going by Michael Muthukrishna
robkhenderson.com 24 Dec 2023
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robkhenderson.com 16 Feb 2023
Recommends Richard Hanania's Newsletter
Richard is one of the most interesting and infuriating writers of our generation, and one of the most intellectually honest people I’ve ever met.
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- Smart People Love New Ideas, Even When They're Bad 18 Oct 2026 A link between high intelligence and luxury beliefs?
- Social Paradox, Confession, Bedroom Generation 15 Oct 2026 Links + recommendations
- Is Modern Dating a Market Failure? 13 Oct 2026 Speaking with Louise Perry
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- You’re Not Who I Thought You Were 11 Oct 2026 2026 Rob Henderson Newsletter survey results
- Is Striving Cringe? 8 Oct 2026 The people who are supposedly “above” status games are often the most shameless players.
- Anger, Human Nature, Narcissism 7 Oct 2026 Links and recommendations + a reminder to take the Rob Henderson Reader Survey
- What Communism Does to Kindness 4 Oct 2026 Subscribe now Share Give a gift subscription Communism is on the rise in America. More than that: It is being celebrated. With the midterm elections just over one month away, at least eight congressional candidates with…
- Rob Henderson 2026 Reader Survey 3 Oct 2026
- Christian Bale, Freud, Indians 30 Sept 2026 Links and recommendations
- What Are You Really Buying With a “Good School”? 27 Sept 2026 Source Many affluent, liberal parents say they believe in equal opportunity in education. Then they move to “the right” district to make sure their own child never sets foot in an underperforming school. One mother chos…
- Doomsayers, Wage Premium, Self-Esteem 23 Sept 2026 Event in Washington D.C. + links and recommendations
- Your Job Gives You More Than Money 20 Sept 2026 Subscribe now Share Give a gift subscription Losing a job hurts. Everyone knows this. A new paper in Social Science & Medicine offers one of the clearest pictures yet of what actually happens to people’s mental health b…
- Dark Forest, Young Men, Blood Boy 17 Sept 2026 Links and recommendations + the best sleep upgrade I've ever had
- Hot Women Keep Becoming Political Problems 16 Sept 2026 Welcome back to the Sydney Sweeney discourse
- Apparently Criminals Don’t Have Free Will, But Elites Do 13 Sept 2026 Subscribe now Share Give a gift subscription A fashionable view of human behavior holds that because everything has a cause, no one is truly responsible for their actions. In his 2023 bestseller “Determined,” Stanford n…
- Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shock 10 Sept 2026 Links and recommendations
- Some Status Games Are Worth Playing 6 Sept 2026 The parable of the poor man’s son
- The Postmodern Defense of Lindsay Clancy 3 Sept 2026 O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women
- Bad Strategy, First-World Problems, Heterodox Dating 2 Sept 2026 Links and recommendations
- When Men Become Optional, Babies Disappear 30 Aug 2026 Subscribe now Share Give a gift subscription Fewer couples mean fewer children. The problem is that fewer men are becoming someone with whom a woman would want to build a family. A new paper in the journal Politics and…
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- "more intelligent people face lower costs when they experiment with new ideas. Trying out a hard or awkward new solution carries fewer penalties for intelligent people. They also enjoy the challenge." 19 Oct 2026 robkhenderson.com
- "San Francisco’s existing underclass...The misery of these people is actively encouraged and supported by the state, both indirectly through tolerance of shoplifting and public disorder and directly through a generous array of cash and in-kind benefits." 19 Oct 2026 city-journal.org
- "loneliness...often framed as a problem of social isolation—of how many connections we have or how often we interact with others...loneliness is actually more about seeing ourselves as unloveable or unlikeable." 19 Oct 2026
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- "there is nothing more human than hoping we can get a reward without risk...The risk delusion makes an appealing sales pitch. Even experts in the financial industry who should know better seem to think that they can reap high returns with less risk." 18 Oct 2026
- Smart People Love New Ideas, Even When They're Bad: 18 Oct 2026 robkhenderson.com
- "DJs have started noticing that dance floors are empty; almost everyone stands around the periphery holding their phones...phones are having on young people’s willingness to take risks. Nobody dances anymore for fear that they will look stupid" 18 Oct 2026 derekthompson.org
- "San Francisco’s...underclass offers a warning. While offshoring and deindustrialization may explain some of America’s broader social dislocation...disorder is more immediately the product of policies that enable addiction, dependency, and dysfunction." 18 Oct 2026 city-journal.org
- "While people born rich are much more likely to start their own successful business, most rich entrepreneurs were born middle or lower class and did not inherit their company...many of these business owners are self-made, local figures." 17 Oct 2026 nytimes.com
- "Most people don't have the biological, psychological, and social tools to love more than one person at a time...the intimate pair bonds we have exhibited throughout our history...difficult to sustain with multiple partners, especially over the long run" 17 Oct 2026
- "between 2012 and 2022, the number of cases of gonorrhea increased fivefold among those over 55, chlamydia tripled...boomers also registered as the fastest-growing demographic of cannabis users, with a 46% increase in usership from 2021 to 2023." 17 Oct 2026 thefp.com
- Interesting: 17 Oct 2026
- If you want to be a reader, you have to be intentional about it. Like a gym routine: 16 Oct 2026 robkhenderson.com
- It is shocking how much of politics on both the left and the right come down to either frustrated desire for (or envy of) white women. Use this power wisely. 16 Oct 2026
- I repeatedly say these things happen, that screenshots of these exchanges go viral, and smoothbrains say “Rob says this never happens.” Fortunately many of you are not so stupid. 16 Oct 2026
- Men are learning about women from stories designed to make them angry. You see guys take these unusual interactions, where a woman suddenly loses interest or ghosts them, and write elaborate, attention-grabbing stories. Then those stories go viral. But part of the reason they go viral is that they’re unusual. If you see something like, “Hey, I met this girl, we really liked each other, and now we’re engaged. We’re getting married.” That might get 17 likes. But if you post, “I had a one-night stand with this girl, and then she ghosted me,” or, “She was leading me on through the app, agreed to… 16 Oct 2026
- "$40 billion marijuana industry, the several million Americans producing sexual content on OnlyFans, or the half of men under 50 with a sports-betting account. Absent cultural and legal response, such products will spread into every corner of our society" 16 Oct 2026 city-journal.org
- "there would be no charlatans to deceive the public if the public did not want, at any price, to be deceived, and it is extremely difficult to deprive it of this satisfaction. The charlatan is necessary for its happiness; it would invent him if he did not already exist" 15 Oct 2026
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- Recorded a podcast with the great @_sagnikbasu 15 Oct 2026
- 3 interesting findings: 1. The average husband-wife IQ gap is between 12 and 15 points. 15 Oct 2026
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