The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“it's also what's made civilization it's what is what makes us good people”
“we are used to our condition to seeing status as this negative thing and it can be a very negative thing but it's also the…”
“you think about monopoly the way you the way you symbolize stages in monopoly is those little plastic houses and hotels and the money um…”
“it's like men's health isn't really a health magazine it's a sexy body magazine it's an i want to look good naked magazine”
“we're these apes that have mastered the art of um um cooperative living”
“those groups are political groups they're football teams they're um you know cults their religions their corporations that we this is what we do that's…”
“there's two ways of being valuable to the tribe you can be virtuous so you can be generous courageous in battle a follower of rules…”
“the brain is is this delusional machine which as i said before remixes reality into this heroic story we're in the middle of the world…”
“what's the truth of the brain what's actually going on kind of beneath the hood”
“once we've got enough money to live and survive and we've got enough money for our families to survive is just about validation”
“my immediate response was oh come on that's so cynical that's a ridiculous thing to say and then i just sort of thought about it…”
“he said right we're going to show them how it's really done and it's not a stylus with your finger make the thing with the…”
“it began with just somebody feeling belittled a barbecue in in california”
“a man always has two reasons for doing something the good reason and the real reason”
“if i was like talking to people and then hitting delete rather than hitting publish suddenly that changes the equation”
“if you just say it's all about status that's half the story the other half is the connection”
“they are moral superstars and that's good it's good that's that's good that that's humanity at its best”
“when you do something good and kind you feel it in your body you go you feel up you literally feel physically up”
“as soon as you're out um in the world mixing with people it's automatic you're judging them they're judging you the game is on”
“we don't need to have fully pure altruistic motives for the things we do to still actually be good”