Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and Center for Humane Technology co-founder, argues that platforms exploit psychological vulnerabilities. He shows how persuasive technology shapes behavior and asks how structural change could repair the attention economy.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Anil Seth

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist studying how the brain constructs conscious experience. His idea of perception as a controlled hallucination reframes reality, the self, and biological survival through the internal predictions that shape what we experience.
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Lessons from Abigail Shrier

Abigail Shrier is a journalist examining youth mental health, gender, and therapy. She argues that some interventions can pathologize normal adolescent behavior, sideline parents, and worsen distress, raising questions about social contagion and institutional responses.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Paul Bloom

Paul Bloom is a cognitive psychologist studying moral judgment and pleasure. He argues that empathy is a poor moral guide, favoring rational compassion while exploring why people value authenticity and why we deliberately choose struggle.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman is a British journalist whose Four Thousand Weeks challenges modern productivity culture. He proposes embracing human limits instead of endlessly optimizing life, offering a sharper way to think about time management, negative thinking, and attention.
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Lessons from Matt Walker

Matthew Walker, a UC Berkeley neuroscience professor, brought sleep science to a broad audience. He frames rest as a biological necessity governing memory, immunity, and mood, and details the physical toll of missing it.
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Lessons from Johann Hari

Johann Hari is a British journalist who argues that addiction, depression, attention loss, and obesity arise largely from our environments rather than individual biological flaws. His work asks how social conditions shape health, behavior, and recovery.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson is a psychologist and former University of Toronto professor examining religious narratives and human behavior. He argues that meaning requires structure and responsibility rather than happiness, linking psychology, speech, and action into a worldview.

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