The Professors and the Brain they Made Up
Arthur Brooks is out with a new book and selling the left-brain/right-brain framework on every podcast in America.
Unfortunately the neuroscience he's leaning on has been outdated for over twenty years.
This essay explains why the model is wrong, why it sells anyway, and why borrowing scientific authority for a worldview eventually costs you both.
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The January Illusion
The annual ritual of New Year's resolutions rests on a flawed premise: that we can identify "right decisions" independent of the stories we're living inside. Most people approach January trying to fix a meaning problem with a purpose tool, expecting new projects to repair old narratives. Identity isn't a fixed core waiting to be discovered, but a scaffolding that evolves with life.
The useful...
The Long Return
On identity, home, and a considered holiday reccomendation
A reflection on identity as something unfinished, shaped by movement, memory, and delayed return. Drawing on my own life across countries, and on a formative encounter in the Hermitage, I explore how what we believe we have left behind rarely disappears. It waits.
This is also an excuse for two holiday recommendations, Julia Ioffe’s M...
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