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2026 31

  1. 22 hours agoFortune Has No Jurisdiction Over Character
  2. Oct 20, 2026Flying Cars and Broken Trains
  3. Oct 13, 2026Don't Stop Complaining
  4. Oct 01, 2026Your Balcony is Too Shallow
  5. Sep 25, 2026On Injuries
  6. Sep 17, 2026A Place with No Law
  7. Sep 11, 2026The Luxury Built Inside of You
  8. Aug 28, 2026There Is No Town Dream
  9. Aug 13, 2026Late Summer Warnings
  10. Aug 04, 2026On Feet
  11. Jul 28, 202627 Thoughts After Seeing Nolan’s Odyssey
  12. Jul 20, 2026Too Many Ingredients
  13. Jul 07, 2026Your Competitor is Not The Enemy
  14. Jun 26, 2026Mass Dissatisfaction
  15. Jun 16, 2026The Cult of New York
  16. Jun 05, 2026On Getting Scammed
  17. May 19, 2026The Expectation Business
  18. May 05, 2026Be a Better Poet
  19. Apr 24, 2026On Horses
  20. Apr 14, 2026On Energy
  21. Apr 06, 2026The Vassal Strategy
  22. Mar 23, 2026Downward Mobility
  23. Mar 10, 2026Love Will Change the World
  24. Feb 27, 2026Predicting the Future
  25. Feb 19, 2026The Concentric Life
  26. Feb 12, 2026The Problem with Success Stories
  27. Feb 05, 2026Reputation and the Collapse of the Backstage
  28. Jan 29, 2026When Chasing Your Passion Goes Wrong
  29. Jan 20, 2026The Clearance Principle
  30. Jan 12, 2026Moral Lag
  31. Jan 06, 2026Power Chooses Its Own Ending

2025 54

  1. Dec 29, 2025Nature is Always a Give-and-Take
  2. Dec 16, 2025From Option to Obligation
  3. Dec 09, 2025Stay Alive in Case You Get Lucky
  4. Dec 03, 2025Staying Light in the Winter
  5. Nov 26, 2025Notes on Boredom
  6. Nov 19, 2025Why Do We Dress So Badly?
  7. Nov 12, 2025Talent Follows Incentives
  8. Nov 03, 2025Why Aren’t We Afraid of a Food Stamp Revolt?
  9. Oct 29, 2025The Fisherian Runaway
  10. Oct 22, 2025Trust Your Intuition
  11. Oct 14, 2025Making Money in the Gilded Age
  12. Oct 06, 2025Modern Life Is Attrition Warfare
  13. Sep 29, 2025The Return of Oral Culture
  14. Sep 23, 2025 A New, Third Thing.
  15. Sep 17, 2025Seven Lessons from the Kirk Assassination
  16. Sep 10, 2025Optimize for Joy Instead of Speed
  17. Sep 02, 2025The Masculine Urge to Walk Away
  18. Aug 26, 2025Japan Gets There First
  19. Aug 18, 2025August is a Strange Month
  20. Aug 11, 2025The Housing Issue We Don't Talk About
  21. Aug 04, 2025How People Change Their Minds
  22. Jul 22, 2025Never Lose Your Confidence
  23. Jul 15, 2025Why is Testosterone Dropping in Men?
  24. Jul 11, 2025Debt and the America Party
  25. Jul 07, 2025The Hidden Risks of Ozempic
  26. Jun 30, 2025Women Are Becoming More Like Men
  27. Jun 19, 2025It's Good to Be Lucky
  28. Jun 09, 2025The Art of Not Getting Fired
  29. Jun 02, 2025What Hercules Knew
  30. May 27, 2025Asymmetries of Daily Life
  31. May 20, 2025Total Delivery App Victory
  32. May 14, 2025Why Do Americans Have So Much ADHD?
  33. May 10, 2025Things We Can’t Replace
  34. May 07, 2025The Modern Human Umwelt
  35. Apr 28, 2025Train Your Grip First
  36. Apr 22, 2025Death of a Drop-Shipper
  37. Apr 18, 2025The Incredible Power of Stress
  38. Apr 11, 2025Geography is Destiny
  39. Apr 04, 2025Is Something Wrong With The Bread?
  40. Mar 28, 2025The Problem with Deathbed Wisdom
  41. Mar 23, 2025A Few Thoughts on Trump
  42. Mar 17, 2025You Can Always Make a Comeback
  43. Mar 08, 2025Mimetic Mindfulness
  44. Mar 03, 2025A Theory of Hair
  45. Feb 25, 2025War is Still Hell
  46. Feb 21, 2025Random Musings on Language
  47. Feb 17, 2025Designing the Optimal Workspace
  48. Feb 10, 2025There Are Many Ways to Be Smart
  49. Feb 04, 2025The Lindy Guide to Drinking
  50. Jan 27, 2025Improve Your Focus
  51. Jan 22, 2025Let Me Help You Read The Odyssey
  52. Jan 17, 2025The Lindy Guide to Creativity
  53. Jan 13, 2025Are You Smarter Than Someone 100 Years Ago?
  54. Jan 08, 2025The Lindy Guide to Longevity

2024 76

  1. Dec 26, 2024Modern Inversions
  2. Dec 20, 2024We're All Gamers Now
  3. Dec 13, 2024Are Dating Woes Reshaping Society?
  4. Dec 06, 2024Life Happens in Bursts
  5. Nov 29, 2024Modern Addictions Are Hard to Break
  6. Nov 25, 20241875-1930 The Last Beautiful Era
  7. Nov 20, 2024Make America Healthy Again?
  8. Nov 11, 2024You Don't Have to Look Back
  9. Nov 06, 2024A Presidency Ruled by Surrogates: Trump’s 2nd Term
  10. Nov 04, 2024A Few Predictions for Artificial Intelligence
  11. Oct 30, 2024The Rules of Pre-Modern Medicine for Health
  12. Oct 25, 2024What's Wrong With Korea?
  13. Oct 22, 2024You Need A Story
  14. Oct 18, 2024A Very Lindy Election
  15. Oct 16, 2024The Lindy Guide to Lighting
  16. Oct 11, 2024The South Has Risen
  17. Oct 09, 2024The Arc of Technology: From Fun Option to Obligation
  18. Oct 05, 2024In Praise of the Human Shoulder
  19. Sep 30, 2024The 2010s Transformed Our Thinking
  20. Sep 24, 2024The Advice You Don't Need
  21. Sep 18, 2024Three Weeks in Berlin
  22. Sep 13, 2024Relationships Have Changed But Charming Men Have Not
  23. Sep 09, 2024The 3-Day Weekend is Inevitable
  24. Sep 03, 2024The Power of a Cool Jacket
  25. Aug 27, 2024What Does An Aging Society Look Like?
  26. Aug 21, 2024On Politeness
  27. Aug 16, 2024Is Rushing Making Us Dumber?
  28. Aug 12, 2024Don't Give Up on Reading Just Yet
  29. Aug 06, 2024The Airport is the New Third Place
  30. Jul 31, 2024The Case For The Fall Olympics
  31. Jul 27, 2024What Happens After the Nation-State?
  32. Jul 22, 2024The Lindy Way to Lose Weight
  33. Jul 16, 2024Are We Becoming Too Domesticated?
  34. Jul 12, 2024Choosing the Right Tactics for the Environment
  35. Jul 08, 2024The Quiet Revenge of Animals
  36. Jun 28, 2024The Opposite of a Good Idea Isn't Always Bad
  37. Jun 24, 2024In Defense of Procrastination
  38. Jun 20, 2024Reverse Parking Mindset
  39. Jun 14, 2024The Downside of Being a Rich Country
  40. Jun 10, 2024Selling Plastic and Rubber to Buy Wood and Stone
  41. Jun 05, 2024Thick and Thin Cultures
  42. May 31, 2024Life in the Past Wasn't That Bad
  43. May 28, 2024The Go-For-It Window
  44. May 21, 2024Safety Nets Matter
  45. May 17, 2024The Car We Are Waiting For
  46. May 13, 2024Florida Banning Lab Grown Meat is a Big Deal
  47. May 08, 2024Never Deny a Rumor
  48. May 03, 2024The Long Slow Decline of Starbucks
  49. Apr 30, 2024Make America Beautiful Again
  50. Apr 26, 2024On Insults and Compliments
  51. Apr 22, 2024Astrology Will Not Die
  52. Apr 17, 2024The Rise of the DINK
  53. Apr 10, 2024The Lindy Guide to Warsaw
  54. Apr 08, 2024New Rules for Art in a Fallen World
  55. Apr 02, 2024Gambling is Going to Dominate American Sports Culture
  56. Mar 29, 2024Advice to Your Younger Self
  57. Mar 25, 2024This is How I Cured My Smartphone Addiction
  58. Mar 19, 2024Spring is the New Summer
  59. Mar 13, 2024The Unbearable Sadness of the Health Influencer
  60. Mar 08, 2024Use Your Second Intelligence
  61. Mar 05, 2024The 2nd Amendment Comes to the City
  62. Mar 01, 2024Things You Don't See as Much of AnymorePart 3
  63. Feb 26, 2024The Goal is Not the Goal. The Side-Effect is The Goal
  64. Feb 20, 2024The Lindy Guide to Moving to Europe
  65. Feb 16, 2024You Do Not Want to Get This Disease
  66. Feb 13, 2024Why Don't Americans Eat Lamb?
  67. Feb 09, 2024You Should Study Persuasion
  68. Feb 05, 2024My Exhausting Year of Job Stacking
  69. Feb 02, 202410 Rules for Humor
  70. Jan 29, 2024Why is Traveling So Uncomfortable?
  71. Jan 25, 2024America is Wealthy But it Doesn't Feel Like It
  72. Jan 21, 2024The Joy of Sumo
  73. Jan 19, 2024Trump Has One Big Advantage
  74. Jan 16, 2024The Forgotten Postures of History
  75. Jan 08, 2024The World Before 8 a.m.
  76. Jan 02, 2024The Future Could Be Buddhist

2023 82

  1. Dec 29, 2023Things You Don't See as Much of AnymorePart 2
  2. Dec 22, 2023You Can Really Feel the Inflation
  3. Dec 19, 2023Herodotus Was Right
  4. Dec 15, 2023Building the Perfect Modern Cafe
  5. Dec 12, 2023Who are the Americans (Part 2)Freedom of Speech
  6. Dec 06, 2023On Taxes
  7. Dec 01, 2023Things You Don't See as Much of AnymorePart 1
  8. Nov 27, 2023Borders Are Lindy
  9. Nov 13, 2023All Voice Assistants Will Fail
  10. Nov 06, 2023Soon, You Will (Legally) Choose When You Want to Pass AwayThe Rise of Assisted Suicide
  11. Oct 30, 2023The Lindy Guide to Istanbul
  12. Oct 24, 2023Cybertruck: A Vision of Transportation in a Post-Collapse World
  13. Oct 20, 2023People Do Not Escape From Jail Anymore
  14. Oct 17, 2023War is Back
  15. Oct 09, 2023Is Retirement a Fading Mirage?
  16. Oct 02, 2023What Happens When You Microwave Plastic?
  17. Sep 25, 2023I'm Worried About Chicago
  18. Sep 20, 2023The Instantaneous Universal Translator is Almost Here
  19. Sep 15, 2023In Search of Ancient Diets
  20. Sep 09, 2023What Killed Rock Music as Mainstream Presence?
  21. Sep 05, 2023Who are the Americans? (Part 1) Climate Control
  22. Aug 30, 2023The Self-Driving Car is Finally Here
  23. Aug 22, 2023Being a Landlord is Cool Now
  24. Aug 15, 2023Subtitles On Everything
  25. Aug 08, 2023We Can't Stop Population Decline
  26. Aug 01, 2023In Praise of Direct Democracy
  27. Jul 24, 2023Modern Tourism is Getting Weird
  28. Jul 18, 2023On Relationship Advice
  29. Jul 12, 2023Why Are There So Many Twitter Clones Now?Scale Transformation
  30. Jul 06, 202315-20 More Federal HolidaysWould Solve Half of the Mental Health Issues in this Country
  31. Jun 27, 2023Saying Goodbye to Hollywood
  32. Jun 20, 2023How Much Alcohol Should we Drink?
  33. Jun 12, 2023The Exercise Problem
  34. Jun 05, 2023The Rise of the Luxury College Town
  35. May 30, 2023Getting Away With Murder
  36. May 23, 2023The Internet is Not Forever
  37. May 15, 2023The Vulgar Wave1991 - 2008
  38. May 10, 2023On Fighting
  39. May 07, 2023Weekend ReadsMay 2023
  40. May 05, 2023Is Height Discrimination Lindy?
  41. May 02, 20233 Examples of Technology Eroding Trust
  42. Apr 24, 2023The Hydration Revolution
  43. Apr 22, 2023Weekend ReadsApril 2023
  44. Apr 18, 2023Focus on the Opposite
  45. Apr 15, 2023Weekend ReadsApril 2023
  46. Apr 11, 2023Whatever Happened to the Remote Work Revolution?
  47. Apr 08, 2023Weekend ReadsApril 2023
  48. Apr 06, 2023Can We Replace a Tree?Fractals and the Doorman Fallacy
  49. Apr 03, 2023The Permanent Now
  50. Apr 01, 2023Weekend ReadsApril 2023
  51. Mar 28, 2023Should The Government Ban TikTok?
  52. Mar 25, 2023Weekend ReadsMarch 2023
  53. Mar 21, 2023The National Adderall Shortage
  54. Mar 18, 2023Weekend ReadsMarch 2023
  55. Mar 14, 2023Sports and The Refinement Culture
  56. Mar 11, 2023Weekend ReadsMarch 2023
  57. Mar 07, 2023Where Will You Put Your Desk?
  58. Mar 04, 2023Weekend ReadsMarch 2023
  59. Feb 27, 2023Dating Online is the New Normal
  60. Feb 25, 2023Weekend ReadsFebruary 2023
  61. Feb 22, 2023Widespread Prosperity for the 25%
  62. Feb 18, 2023Weekend ReadsFebruary 2023
  63. Feb 15, 2023Age-Gap Relationships
  64. Feb 11, 2023Weekend ReadsFebruary 2023
  65. Feb 08, 2023The Return of Gait Analysis
  66. Feb 04, 2023Weekend ReadsFebruary 2023
  67. Feb 01, 2023The Relationship Domain
  68. Jan 28, 2023Weekend ReadsJanuary 2023
  69. Jan 25, 2023On Fashion
  70. Jan 22, 2023Weekend ReadsJanuary 2023
  71. Jan 17, 2023From the Sealed Home to the Sealed Person
  72. Jan 14, 2023Transhumanism
  73. Jan 14, 2023Weekend ReadsJanuary 2023
  74. Jan 11, 2023Small Talk is Good
  75. Jan 07, 2023Weekend ReadsJanuary 2023
  76. Jan 01, 2023Ceiling Height Matters
  77. Jan 01, 2023The Last Queen
  78. Jan 01, 2023On Gambling
  79. Jan 01, 2023The Asymmetry of Breakups
  80. Jan 01, 2023Refinement Culture
  81. Jan 01, 2023The One Thousand Year American EmpireA Cultural Phenomenon
  82. Jan 01, 2023I Took an Experimental Weight-Loss DrugWhat Will end the Obesity Crisis?

2022 23

  1. Dec 31, 2022The 4-Hour Life The Consistency Space
  2. Dec 31, 2022Culture is Stuck
  3. Dec 11, 2022Weekend Reads
  4. Nov 25, 2022Weekend Reads
  5. Nov 13, 2022Weekend Reads
  6. Oct 30, 2022Weekend Reads
  7. Oct 14, 2022Weekend Reads
  8. Oct 02, 2022Weekend Reads
  9. Aug 27, 2022Weekend Reads
  10. Aug 14, 2022Weekend Reads
  11. Jul 10, 2022Weekend Reads
  12. Jul 03, 2022Weekend Reads
  13. Jun 11, 2022Weekend Reads
  14. May 29, 2022Weekend Reads
  15. May 13, 2022Weekend Reads
  16. Apr 17, 2022Weekend Reads
  17. Apr 08, 2022Weekend Reads
  18. Mar 25, 2022Weekend Reads
  19. Mar 12, 2022Weekend Reads
  20. Feb 26, 2022Weekend Reads
  21. Feb 04, 2022Weekend Reads
  22. Jan 21, 2022Weekend Reads
  23. Jan 07, 2022Weekend Reads

2021 6

  1. Dec 31, 2021Weekend Reads
  2. Dec 24, 2021Weekend Reads
  3. Dec 17, 2021Weekend Reads
  4. Dec 13, 2021LinkedIn Will Never Die
  5. Dec 10, 2021Weekend Reads
  6. Dec 04, 2021Weekend Reads