Articles

• TGC on how to “to die with dignity”

• How to strengthen your imagination and enhance your creative muscles.

• An appreciative comparison of Tim Keller and Lesslie Newbigin

• How to manage people smarter than you are (Glenn may or may not have sent this to Ben)

• Organizational Psychologist Adam Grant on how to build a culture of learning in the workplace through growing in humility. (Ben may or may not have sent this to Glenn)

• A Very Thoughtful article on Liberalism.

  • “We are living in a time when a particular expression of the liberal drive toward greater freedom (an always nebulous but nevertheless engaging and inspiring goal for Americans) has become dysfunctional. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it has happened in the past with other forms of liberalism, and liberalism has adapted and persisted.”

Paywalled

• A perceptive & revealing expose on why Americans aren’t having children anymore. (WSJ)

• Imagine a medical establishment which shrugged off the conclusions of a comprehensive report and continued providing the same unproven and life-altering treatment to young patients. This is where we are with gender medicine in the United States. (NYT)

• Is Cutting Off Your Family Good Therapy? (NYT)

• Why Millenials Are So Obsessed With Dogs (The Atlantic)

• “X has always been in the doomscrolling business, and business is booming.” (The Atlantic)

  Data

• Men & Women

  • There are twice as many women flying U.S. military planes as there are men teaching kindergarten. (source)

  • 20 percent of single men say they don’t have any close friends. (source)

• Friends

  • A widely cited study found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friendship and a total of 200 hours to become close friends

  • Friendship accounts for about 60 percent of the difference in happiness between people, even for introverts.

• Miscellaneous

  • Today, >55 year old Americans control nearly 70% of U.S. household wealth, according to the Federal Reserve.

  • The average wedding now costs $30,000, according to a survey from The Knot.

  • Recent research suggests that "Pornography triggers stronger brain reward responses than gaming or money"