Bez Tytułu - Issue #224

Kuba

Dec 21, 2025

In this week's issue:

When Nothing Becomes Unbearable
The Mentalist Who Can’t Read Minds
Why Everyone Became a Jerk (Mathematically Speaking)
Don’t get to attached
You are what you do when nobody’s watching
If you worry …
Start over again, again

Let’s go!

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📰Something to Read

When Nothing Becomes Unbearable

Language: English | Reading Time: 23 minutes

We’re never bored.

That sounds good. It’s not. Because we’ve cured the wrong kind of boredom.
The productive kind. The kind that made the Wright brothers watch gulls for hours until they figured out flight.

Now we’ve got the slot machine kind. Six hours a day consuming content. Checking phones 205 times. Skip songs in five seconds. Panic when battery hits 20%.

This essay by fellow substacker Nick Lynch traces what we lost when we fixed boredom.
Turns out the thing we’re running from is where creativity, meaning, and purpose actually emerge.

🎬From Youtube

Language: English | Duration: 14 minutes

Oz Pearlman is billed as the world’s greatest mind reader. Plot twist: he can’t read minds.

What he does instead? Reads people. Three decades of reverse-engineering how humans think, react, and give themselves away. Live on stage, he pulls celebrities out of strangers’ heads. Alexander the Great. Trevor Noah. Barack Obama.

But here’s the useful part. He breaks down a technique you’ll actually use.
How to never forget someone’s name again. Three words: Listen, Repeat, Reply. Sounds simple. You’re doing it wrong.

Also: why he’s not afraid of being wrong on stage, and how he got someone in the audience to read another person’s mind. Worth watching if you’ve ever forgotten a name two seconds after hearing it.

🌐WWW Gems

Why Everyone Became a Jerk (Mathematically Speaking)

Interactive game theory lesson disguised as a coin game. You cooperate or cheat. Play again. Repeat. Different opponents, different strategies. Some always cooperate. Some always cheat. Some mirror your moves.

Based on Robert Axelrod’s 1984 book on cooperation, except you don’t read it.
You play through it. Watch strategies evolve, introduce mistakes, change payoffs, see what breaks trust and what builds it.

The math behind why we stopped trusting each other isn’t complicated.
Neither is the fix. Takes 30 minutes.