Author: Khali Sollis
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Why Humans Started Living Publicly
On privacy, self-disclosure, and the slow erosion of the private self There was a moment, sometime around 2009 or 2010, when a significant portion of the population made a decision that would have seemed strange to any previous generation: they began narrating their lives out loud, in public, to people they mostly didn’t know very… Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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How Social Media Learned to Train Human Behavior
Social media as behavioral conditioning — and why it worked so well Maya unlocks her phone to check a text and twenty minutes later cannot remember why she picked it up. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Economics of Looking Successful
On performing success before achieving stability There is a specific kind of pressure that settles over people in their twenties and thirties — a pressure not just to succeed, but to appear to be succeeding. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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A Stage That Never Closes
On the Rise of Curate Identity There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes not from doing too much, but from performing too much. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Reproducibility Challenge in Science
How failed replications in psychology and biomedicine sparked a reproducibility crisis, and the reforms—preregistration, open data—built to fix it. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Brain’s Internal GPS Wins the Nobel Prize
How John O’Keefe and the Mosers won the Nobel Prize for discovering the brain’s place and grid cells, the neurons that map where we are. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
