Sitemap - 2023 - What Is Even Happening?
What If Millennials Just Aren't Good Parents?
As 2024 Dawns, Ask Yourself: Why's It Hard To Change?
"We Were Smoking The B*tch" | "Was Riding Him Like A Donkey"
Hi. It's Me. I'm The Problem. It's Me.
What Does It Feel Like To Not Be Able To Impregnate Your Wife?
Work Is Designed To Maximize Relevance, Not Productivity
Men: Do They Need "Purpose" Or "Respect" More?
The Troubling "Christmas Death Rate"
The Troubling American Suicide Rate -- And What To Make Of It
The Flawed Core Assumption Behind Marriage
But Wait -- How Would You Know If 2024 Was Successful?
What's The Most Popular Stuff I Cranked Out This Year On Substack, Eh?
4,031 Days Later -- How Do We Think About The Sandy Hook Shooting?
Good Luck Finding Any Managers For The Next 10-15 Days
Are Modern Men Essentially Just Sperm Donors?
What's The Point Of Modern Feminism?
The Upper Middle Class Is Its Own Prison
How To Make Christmas Not Suck (And The Origin Of Elves)
A Guide To A Minimally-Offensive Christmas Card
Is Today An Instagram Mom Super Bowl?
The Psychology Of The Annual Holiday Card
What If You View Sex As Failure?
How To Get Emotionally Punched In The Face
You Cannot Skip The Second Act Of Life
Friends With Kids Versus Friends Without Kids
"Critical Race Theory" Is A Bogeyman
Why Would Someone Drink 10 Beers On A Random Thursday?
Life gets a lot easier when you realize how many people are full of shit
A multi-year tale of drunkenness, failure, resilience, woe, and life
Bad Bosses Ruin Companies (Oh, And People)
Does Infertility Make You Lose Faith In God?
Per Day, What Does Bad Leadership Cost?
Would A "Compassionate" Workplace Be More Profitable?
The $842,000 Problem Of Work And Masculinity
Tying "Data" To "Company Culture"
What Does Watching Porn Actually Do To Guys?
Good Friends Vs. Trash Friends
Does Every Woman WANT To Be A Mom?
HR Departments Are An Utterly Useless Joke
"Pro-Life" Has Become A Fake Concept
Why Do We Neglect What's Really Important In Life?
How Can Men Make More Friends?
"Building Wealth Is The Closest Thing They Have To Fun."
Trump Is The Quintessential Boomer
Biases, Fallacies, And Tribalism -- OH MY!
What The Hell Is The Point Of The Annual Christmas Card Send?
23 Ways To Think About Leadership
"Holistic Ain't Gonna Get Me A House In Malibu."
The Inherent Bullshit Of Infertility
It's Not Just "Screens." It's More About Bad Parenting.
"Every Divorced Woman I Know Is Happier."
Why Can't Men Talk About Anything Relevant?
DEI Training Is A Joke -- But Can Be Fixed
Men And Therapy: Utterly Broken Bullshit
For Women To "Rise," Must Men "Decline?"
Why Hiring Absolutely F'n Sucks
The Three Tiers Of Work And Life
Managers Are Often Clueless Buffoons And Can't Define "Productivity"
The U.S. Economy Is Designed For The Affluent
The Narcissism Of The Slight Difference
Go Befriend Your Neighbors In This Season
Sam Altman And Society's AI Brink
Make Thanksgiving Conversation Not Suck
Why Isn't Thanksgiving Cancelled?
Trump Voters Are Dying -- And Kinda Fast
"The Razor's Edge Of Someone Else's Joy."
White Middle-Aged Guys And The DEI Problem
Of Course Senior "Leaders" Are Out Of Touch With Their People.
What Does It Mean To "Care" For Someone?
Americans Increasingly Feel Utterly Stuck
Putting New Motherhood On Trial
What are the expectations of friendship?
Uh, Yea, There's A Solution For Burnout
Collectively, Are We All More Unhappy?
Addiction And The Deferring Of Time
Travis The Chimp, The Maine Shooting, And Understanding Humans
The Maine Mass Shooting As "A Canary In The Coal Mine"
How (And Why) Do Certain People Become Evil?
"We Need To Place A Higher Value On Human Existence."
The Particular Pathology Of "Wanting It All"
"Travel Soccer Is Just Killing Us This Year."
Can We Teach Empathy To Adults, Or No?
Work = An Island Of Meaningless Tasks
Can We "Solve" Mass Shootings?
The Tyranny Of Bored, Entitled White Women
"A Scar Across Our Collective Soul"
Trump And How Elite Liberals Always Miss The Boat
What Factors Actually Make A Job "Good?"
Normative Male Alexithymia And The "Decline Of Men"
Emotional, And Professional, Absenteeism
Why Do We Stereotype Women As Hating Sex?
"It's My Husband's Birthday. Guess I Gotta F*ck."
Why Am I So Sad And Angry So Often?
The U-Curve Of Happiness: Your Prime Working Years Are Breaking Ya
At Work, Managers And Execs Want To Be Deified
"The Great De-Churching:" So, What Thing Is The New "Religion" For People?
What Is The Point Of Modern Men?
"Why Would I Help Out Those Less Fortunate Than Me?"
The Culture Wars Are Destroying Relevant Employment Options
"No One Gives A Sh*t:" The 20-40-60 Rule
The False Freedom Of Motherhood
What Stumbling Drunk Through An Open Field Taught Me About Navigating Adulthood
Richie Jerimovich Of "The Bear" IS America Now
F*ck All The Stigmas Against Child-Less Women
"Body Count:" WTF Is This A Culture Topic Now?
The $233,000 Problem: The Exhaustion Of Everyone Feeling Broke AF
Does Infertility Make You Lose Faith In God?
The Decline Of Marriage And "Sex For Stability"
Don't Let People Get Too Far Gone
White-Collar Work Has Maybe 25 Good Years Left
Friends With Kids Versus Friends Without Kids
Most Of America Now Seems To ... Not Like America?
A Bit Preposterous To Assume "The Rich" Are Always "The Intelligent" As Well, Right?
I'm Coming Over Here For A New Challenge
The failed promise of the metaverse
Mental health and mass shootings
How we fight addiction vs. how we fight teenage sex
"Insisting on a culprit in every tragedy"
"... Less in agreement about how to fix it..."
The harsh reality of why outsourcing happens, which for some reason many just don't like to discuss
America's twin "religions" are money and work, and ignoring that is folly
Most management speak comes from 1930s communism? Very nice.
Ideologically-"pure" marriages
"If we see life as a brutal contest..."
Find your heart's desire and find ... despair?
Are economists now openly discussing Chad's coke problem?
Trump scaled the Culture Wars (and he's still doing it)
Painful, but true, words about life
Wait, the government goes to Dimon's office, and not the other way around? LOL
We're addicted to poverty as a concept
"I'm so busy" as a status symbol
Corporations are almost entirely useless when it comes to advocating for social justice stuff
"Oh beautiful, for spacious skies..."
The corporate maze comes even for the once-innovative companies
Status Threat | Merit Threat | Moral Threat
"We use children to justify everything politically, and then do nothing to help them."
Why do we ever react with surprise about social media, tech, and teen depression?
Female mentorship now seems increasingly impossible
We're pretty shitty at evaluating women in the workforce
Do men need purpose, or respect?
"Compassion? In a company? That's fluffy shit."
The dirty little secret of policing
Does the rise of partisanship signal that we don't value other humans as much?
Supposedly-inclusive language actually ends up dividing
"College-educated whites are not clear coalition partners with ... well, anyone."
"A hollowing out of ourselves"
The consistent need to reflect a personal brand is tedious at best, perilous for society at worst.
Arthur Brooks on the tie between happiness and conventional success
"We need pleasure -- just not too much."