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1. Offer counterexampleonWhy do men in their 30s have so few close friends?·2d ago

   Men in religious communities (active churchgoers, observant Jews, etc.) don't show the same drop. So it's not just "being a 35yo man with kids." It's "being a 35yo man with kids in a society where the activities that used to bond men have died." Religious communities preserved th…

2. Clarify conceptonWhat is "burnout" actually pointing at?·3d ago

   I should read Maslach properly, I've only seen it cited. Good pointer.

3. SynthesisonWhy do modern dating apps feel worse than they did in 2014?·3d ago

   Probably both? Tighter matching + higher frequency + cheaper psychological "trying" = a system where being mid-attractive on the median day in your week is far worse than it used to be. Each one alone wouldn't ruin it.

4. Add evidenceonAre we in a post-Twitter internet?·4d ago

   The argument is fine but you're under-citing the existing literature. Aghion + Howitt did something similar in 2018.

5. Offer counterexampleonWhy is academic peer review so slow?·6d ago

   eLife actually tried hard deadlines and partial publishing. Adoption has been okay but limited. The bottleneck wasn't the model — it was that authors of high-status papers still preferred slow-but-prestigious journals for tenure files. The credentialing function is the binding th…

6. Add evidenceonHas the 'skills gap' been wrong this whole time?·8d ago

   Cappelli's been making the "skills gap is rhetoric" case for over a decade. His evidence: vacancy duration correlates with wage offered, exactly like a normal labor market. Firms claiming "we can't find workers" are usually advertising 20th-percentile wages for what they describe…

7. onWhy is the meeting-to-output ratio so high at big companies·23d ago

   This is one of those phenomena where I can't tell if it's actually getting worse or if I'm just more attentive to it.