5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1606+ words) I have multiple personality disorder I've actually known this since 2013 when a psychiatrist at Northwestern University told me. At the time I told myself it's a misdiagnosis and I have autism. I told myself mental health professionals are so stupid…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (563+ words) This happened at Harvard. A decade where I obsessed more and more about autism until I had read more papers than anyone in my department. I would write a paper every night. I couldn't stop working. And what I remembered…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (376+ words) When I started doing research at Harvard, I noticed that almost every family study used poor families as subjects. I assumed the funding skewed that way, but it didn't " even race-based grants used poor families. The actual work is structure…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (482+ words) detail of Blue-Yellow-Red from Colorfields (1974) by Gerhard Richter This past week I culled the email list of people who recently took my personality type test. I had to sort through a lot of snippy emails that a filter won't decide…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (357+ words) Most people don't mistype strangers. They mistype the people they love. That's what I realized after years of using personality type in parenting, partnerships, and work. I knew all the frameworks, but I still got my family members wrong over…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1119+ words) Levittown, NY, a post-WWII suburban single-family sprawl Gen Z is conservative. Not culturally, but in how they respond to collapse. They grew up inside system collapse'financial crisis, institutional failure, pandemic, climate instability'and they're responding the way post-crisis generations always do:…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (931+ words) Farewell to the Wet Nurse by Etienne Aubry (1776) For hundreds of years, middle-class women have maintained their social position by making childcare into dirty work that only desperate women do. The wet nurse was the original outsourcing: a poor woman…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1943+ words) South Park episode "Butt Out" which makes fun of Rob Reiner's self-delusion. Rob Reiner is a famous director and he's dead. You probably knew him from his movies'This is Spinal Tap'and'When Harry Met Sally. Now you'll know him because his…...