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The Roganification of the Male Mystique
Joe Rogan changed. Not all at once. Not in some catastrophic fall from grace. But gradually — the way signals turn to noise when the frequency gets stuck. And now, millions of men are trying to survive a collapsing world by bulking up their biceps and shrinking their imaginations. I saw
Stop Conflating Genius With Asshole
Somewhere between Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, we started believing that in order to be brilliant, you had to be unbearable. That cruelty itself was a kind of clarity. That the sneer, the kicking and screaming, the impossible-to-please demands were just signs of a mind operating on a different level.
This is Peak Featurecide
TechCrunch: Substack continues to double down on video amid TikTok’s uncertain future in the U.S. The company announced on Monday that it’s rolling out a scrollable video feed in its app, making it the latest platform to introduce a TikTok-like feed. Given the timing of the launch,
The Ordinary Sacred
A Philosophy of Happiness Through the Uncurated Life In 1953, Ernest Dichter—the father of motivational research—wrote that the American consumer was no longer purchasing soap to clean themselves, but to feel clean. Advertising wasn’t selling products. It was selling identity. A bar of soap promised not just