Daily Archives: May 9, 2025

Nathan Cofnas: ‘Podcast Bros and Brain Rot: The only thing worse than an expert is a non-expert’

One of the great things about psychotherapy is that you can get insights that end your petty obsessions. For example, after a year of therapy, in 1999, my therapist told me that the reason I was obsessed with writing about … Continue reading

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NYT: In Multilevel Marketing, Sleight of Hand Is Simply the Rule of Doing Business

The New York Times reports on this new book, Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America: Bridget Read’s “Little Bosses Everywhere” exposes the deceptions of direct-selling companies that make their profit not off customers but off their own … Continue reading

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Tom Wolfe’s Favorite Russian Writers

Gemini says: Tom Wolfe cited several Russian writers as influences and inspirations, particularly those associated with the Brothers Serapion group, including Boris Pilnyak, and especially Eugene Zamiatin. He also expressed admiration for other Russian authors like Nikolai Gogol, Alexander Pushkin, … Continue reading

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