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Actually good advice
don’t tell someone they look like Beaker from The Muppets, etc.
Most advice is bad. It’s either obvious (“Don’t sweat the small stuff”—if I thought it was small, I wouldn’t be sweating it!), applicable to some people but not to others (“Be...
I like 'em thick
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I owe an apology to every English teacher I ever had. I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. These books did not have anything...
Incentives are for losers
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We can all agree: the incentives are bad. Everywhere you look, people are being rewarded for doing the wrong thing. This has become the go-to diagnosis for every problem, from climate change to political polarization to...
Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners
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This is the third annual Experimental History Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree, where people send me their best new blog posts and I reward my favorites with praise and cash.
This year, I got 68 submiss...
The Decline of Deviance 2
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In The Decline of Deviance, I argued that:
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Many forms of risk-taking and rule-breaking have declined since the 1990s.
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This is both good (less crime) and bad (less innovation).
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Deviance is declining beca...
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