It’s been a while since the last subscriber post, figure it’s time to check in. I’m sitting on a couple of longer posts, including EToC v3; keep an eye out for them. In the meantime, there will be mor…

IQ has a reputation for being the hard-nosed psychometric option. Those who are willing to accept facts over feelings will admit its supremacy. But this is stolen valor! Emotional intelligence is fund…

In 1921, Leo Frobenius reported the creation myth of a Bassari tribe in Northern Togo:

This post steps back from grand claims and asks readers to make a few of their own. One of the most addicting parts of personality research is trying to understand the unifying theme of a factor when …

Homo Sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years but didn’t do much for the first 185,000 or so. At the end of the Ice Age, there was a “revolution of symbols,” as archeologist Jacques Cauvin cal…

My work has become dangerously close to a Prompt Engineer1. This is fine by me, as it combines my love of writing, psychometrics, and NLP. Here are some of the most overpowered prompting techniques:

“Language may well have arisen as a mysterious power possessed largely by women—women who spent much more of their waking time together—and, usually, talking—than did men, women who in all societies a…

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Psychology, and the Word was Psychology” ~New Vector Translation

is a researcher and writer blogging about the science and politics of mental health at . In this episode, he joins me in dissecting the psychological and religious frameworks of Jordan Peterson, a fig…

Chicks still wet from hatching, covered in bits of shell that have been their only home, will run for cover at the sight of a hawk but not a gull, heron, or pigeon. Humans are not foreigners to animal…