Dropping In, The Burdens of Devotion, The Personalities of Millionaires

Podcast appearance + links and recommendations

You can now watch or listen to my conversation with Charlie from Charisma on Command on the Dropping In Podcast:

Links for Spotify and Apple Podcast.

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From the archives

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States—A Review

The Burdens of Devotion

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Links and recommendations

• One of my readers, Tim, put together a Spotify playlist of all the songs I mentioned in Troubled

• J. Crew and the Paradoxes of Prep by Hua Hsu

• How I Tamed My Envy by

  Kirsten Powers

• The American Man Is the Problem by

  Alex Perez

• A Scary Date Can Help You Find a Good Mate by

  Morbidly Curious Thoughts

• About a Boyhood Essay by

  Chris Jesu Lee

• The First and Best Writing Advice I Ever Received by

  Lincoln Michel

• Follow me on Instagram here. The platform is less volatile and more chill than Twitter/X, so I post some spicier excerpts from my readings on my IG stories

• You can follow me on TikTok here

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Three interesting findings

1. Something as simple as saying “have a nice day” or “take care” to a stranger is linked with greater feelings of happiness. Minimal social interactions with strangers contribute to subjective well-being in everyday life. (source).

2. The Nazis hating intelligence testing—in large part because they worried that it would favor the Jews. They preferred the study and measurement of traits they believed Germans would fare better in, such as what they described as “practical intelligence.” (source: Psych: The Story of the Human Mind by Paul Bloom).

3. Relative to the general  population, millionaires are (source):

•High in Openness

•High in Conscientiousness

•High in Extraversion

•Low in Neuroticism

•Low in Agreeableness

•High in narcissism

•High in internal (vs. external) locus of control