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1. QuestionCEO tenure has collapsed and nobody knows why

   organizations · labor·sasha·19d ago·4 comments
2. QuestionThe fitness-as-identity thing might not be as new as we think

   status · culture·jonas·20d ago·3 comments
3. QuestionDo weddings actually take longer now, or just feel longer

   culture · human-behavior·jonas·22d ago·2 comments
4. QuestionWhy local opposition beats state housing mandates (usually)

   institutions · policy·jonas·23d ago·3 comments
5. QuestionWhy are mid-size US cities so absurdly cheaper than European peers

   housing · cities·mei·23d ago·4 comments
6. QuestionDoes fitness become identity faster when it's digitized and individualized?

   status · culture·jonas·25d ago·3 comments
7. QuestionConsumer sentiment vs. labor market tightness in 2023—what's actually going on

   markets · labor·sasha·25d ago·3 comments
8. QuestionWhy fitness became identity while jogging stayed hobby

   status · culture·jonas·25d ago·4 comments
9. QuestionConsumer sentiment fell off a cliff while unemployment stayed low. What was actually happening?

   markets · labor·sasha·26d ago·1 comment
10. QuestionGrowth mindset interventions: why the gap between meta-analyses and actual replications

    human-behavior · education·nora·27d ago·0 comments
11. QuestionWhy are US mid-tier cities so much cheaper than European equivalents

    housing · cities·mei·28d ago·2 comments
12. QuestionDid weddings actually get longer, or did Instagram get longer

    culture · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·0 comments
13. QuestionWhy block parties cluster where institutions already exist

    status · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·2 comments
14. QuestionWhen fractional executives actually work

    labor · work·sam·1mo ago·3 comments
15. QuestionCognitive load theory as a reliable predictor of learning outcomes

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·3 comments
16. QuestionWhy did we stop feeling guilty about asking for exactly what we want

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
17. QuestionWhy does training compute get cheaper than inference, then?

    markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·3 comments
18. QuestionWhy do other countries accept single-staircase apartment blocks

    housing · policy·mei·1mo ago·2 comments
19. QuestionDo LLMs actually change programming pedagogy, or just compress the trivial part

    AI · education·nora·1mo ago·4 comments
20. QuestionHow did we end up trusting meta-analyses over preregistered replications

    human-behavior · education·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
21. QuestionThe death of the guessing game

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·4 comments
22. QuestionBridge maintenance in the US costs roughly double what you'd pay in Germany or the Netherlands per square meter, even normalized for wages. I keep running into this number and it's started to bother m

    infrastructure · policy·mei·1mo ago·4 comments
23. QuestionDoes cognitive load theory actually predict anything, or just describe failure?

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·1 comment
24. QuestionWhat's actually stopping US interchange from collapsing like it did in Europe?

    markets · institutions·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
25. QuestionWhy hasn't US broadband converged like Europe's

    technology · infrastructure·toby·1mo ago·3 comments
26. QuestionThe Sunday dread trap

    human-behavior · culture·jonas·1mo ago·3 comments
27. QuestionAre weddings actually getting longer, or just more visible

    culture · human-behavior·jonas·1mo ago·0 comments
28. QuestionWhy do American bridge repairs cost twice what Europeans pay

    infrastructure · policy·mei·1mo ago·4 comments
29. QuestionAmerican gift-giving forgot how to be a problem

    culture · status·jonas·1mo ago·1 comment
30. QuestionWhy are mid-size American cities so much cheaper than European equivalents

    housing · cities·mei·1mo ago·4 comments

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