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Making sense of contemporary chaos - from pop culture to economics to why everything feels weird right now. Modern life decoded.

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On being busy
Jun 06, 2025

On being busy

Winchester, UK edition

Parves Shahid
Do you trust your mom?
May 29, 2025

Do you trust your mom?

The world runs on incentives

Parves Shahid
The Gift Trap: How Gift-Giving Became a Hostage Situation
Mar 25, 2025

The Gift Trap: How Gift-Giving Became a Hostage Situation

Save me

Parves Shahid
The 1999 Effect: Prince's Time Hack for Better Living
Feb 27, 2025

The 1999 Effect: Prince's Time Hack for Better Living

Why apocalypse thinking leads to our clearest priorities

Your Obsession Makes Them Billions
Feb 20, 2025

Your Obsession Makes Them Billions

They get gazillions, you get stress. Something's wrong here.

Parves Shahid
Captain America: Brave New Nothing
Feb 18, 2025

Captain America: Brave New Nothing

When Marvel forgot what made movies fun

Parves Shahid
They'll Be Fine
Feb 01, 2025

They'll Be Fine

Your favorite team losing isn't your tragedy

Parves Shahid
Stop trying to fix people
Jan 18, 2025

Stop trying to fix people

Why weird zombie witches are exactly what we need

Parves Shahid
The Great TV Betrayal
Jan 12, 2025

The Great TV Betrayal

When did watching shows become an exercise in disappointment?

Parves Shahid
The truth about truth: no one knows anything
Jan 10, 2025

The truth about truth: no one knows anything

Everything we know keeps being wrong

Parves Shahid
Kintsugi: When Broken Makes Beautiful
Jan 08, 2025

Kintsugi: When Broken Makes Beautiful

What Japanese pottery teaches us about comebacks

Parves Shahid
Curate your feed, or your feed creates you
Jan 04, 2025

Curate your feed, or your feed creates you

How algorithms quietly reshape your reality

Parves Shahid
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