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A Year of Bullshit
One year ago today, I started Everything Is Bullshit. So far, it’s been a lot of fun. Here are some of things I’ve called bullshit on this year…
Mar 14
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February 2024
Bullshit Links - February 2024
Not another list of links! Don’t worry, if you’d rather read an essay, I recently wrote a guest post for one of my favorite substacks, Optimally…
Feb 27
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David Pinsof
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January 2024
Incentives Are Everything
In a 2007 interview on The Colbert Report, the psychologist Steven Pinker got ambushed with the following question: “How does the brain work? Five words…
Jan 22
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David Pinsof
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December 2023
Your Fear of Mortality is Bullshit
There’s a story that smart, literary people like to tell about The Human Experience. The story goes something like this: Many eons ago, we humans—alone…
Dec 21, 2023
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David Pinsof
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November 2023
Opinions Are Bullshit
We all have them. We all love to express them. We all wish that everyone else would stop giving them to us because we didn’t ask for them. Some are held…
Nov 28, 2023
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David Pinsof
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October 2023
Darwin the Cynic
What does “cynicism” mean? According to google, it means: “An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest.” Hm. So does…
Oct 24, 2023
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September 2023
You Actually Want to Suffer
Suffering. What a terrible thing. Pain, grief, heartbreak, humiliation—they’re the worst. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that suffering…
Sep 11, 2023
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David Pinsof
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August 2023
Bullshit Links - August 2023
Had a great conversation with Chris Williamson on the Modern Wisdom podcast. We talked about status games, happiness, the difference between happiness…
Aug 18, 2023
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David Pinsof
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Status Is Weird
and Values Are Bullshit
Aug 1, 2023
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David Pinsof
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July 2023
Psychologizing Psychologists
We spend a lot of time psychologizing people. But we spend very little time psychologizing the people who psychologize people—that is, psychologists…
Jul 18, 2023
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No Self, No Politics
A Couple of Bullshit Book Reviews
Jul 5, 2023
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David Pinsof
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June 2023
You Will Find This Interesting
Some stuff is interesting. Other stuff is boring. This post, for example, is interesting—otherwise you wouldn’t be reading it. But why are you reading…
Jun 13, 2023
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