Mate Deprivation Hypothesis, Friendship, Crime
Links and recommendations
You can now catch my conversation with Dr. David Puder, host of the superb Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Podcast.
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From the archives:
I’m moving to New York
The Only Reading App I Use:
I’ve been using Readwise since April of 2021.
If you follow me on Instagram or Twitter/X, you’ll know I regularly share screenshots like this from books or articles I’ve read:
These screenshots come from my Readwise app.
Readwise aggregates your reading highlights from various sources like Kindle, Apple Books, Substack, Twitter, and so on. It stores your highlights in one place, making it easier to stay on top of your reading.
Each morning, it emails me 8 random excerpts from different books I’ve read. Since 2021, that daily message has been a quiet ritual for me: fragments from books I half‑forgot are resurfaced, like my own past self giving me a tap on the shoulder.
Moreover, when I’m thinking about a particular topic, a quick search pulls up not just my notes but every highlighted Kindle passage I’ve ever saved on the topic.
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I suspect, like me, you’ll wonder how you ever read without it.
Links and recommendations:
My simple model of fertility decline by Tyler Cowen
The Case for Seeing Friendship Like Exercise by Olga Khazan
More on this point here
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Three interesting findings:
1. Social connections are a surprisingly powerful predictor of a long life. Living with a partner is roughly as beneficial as exercise. Regular visits with family or having someone to confide in also appeared to lower mortality risks. (source).
2. Men who admit to behavior that legally meets the definition of rape tend to be more popular, have higher status, and have more consensual sex partners. Popular, high-status, socially successful men, not mate-deprived men, are most likely to rape. (source).
3. Gen Z’ers are half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly and twice as likely to never watch. This trend appears to be only accelerating. Only 15 percent of Generation Alpha, the incoming cohort of teens, enjoys watching sports. (source; h/t Ethan Strauss).
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