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  • When I Go Quiet

    When protection becomes harm →

  • Pain and Beauty

    I travelled to Vienna to ask Jacob Collier where his creative fire comes from. I wasn’t quite prepared for the answer. Marx Halle By the time… →

  • An Open Letter to Sam Altman & the Team at OpenAI

    Dear Sam and everyone at OpenAI, I want to say thank you. This is not a polished product review, a carefully calculated business case, or a… →

  • Writing at the Speed of Thought

    How I turned 45 years of thinking into a 50k-word book in six days A few days ago, I found myself eating a bowl of cereal… →

  • The Hunting Party

    My first book took six days to write and 51 years to collect. →

  • Five Notes on Human Behaviour

    Where to start with a series about control, scarcity, change and the strange ways people affect the environments around them I didn’t really set out to… →

  • Social Gravity

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. What abundance looks… →

  • Punctuated Change

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why deep psychological… →

  • The Ecology of Scarcity

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. How scarcity teaches… →

  • The Parasite and the Host

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why narcissistic relationships… →

  • Hiding in Plain Sight

    This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Or how narcissistic… →

  • The Scarcity Operator

    How a person running on empty turns control into a management style. The Goalposts We all know what it feels like. You reach an agreement with… →