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The Eskimo Village That Lost Its Eyesight

Modern Life

The Eskimo Village That Lost Its Eyesight

After World War II, something strange began happening to the Inuit people of Barrow, Alaska. Their children were becoming nearsighted — at an alarming rate. That’s around the time an optometry researcher named Francis A. Young decided to find out why.

· 7 min read
The Cruel Fantasy of Staying Young Forever

Meaning & Being Human

The Cruel Fantasy of Staying Young Forever

Most of us say we want to stay young. But what are we really asking for? What if the real tragedy is not that we age. What if the real tragedy is spending your life trying to preserve a version of yourself you were meant to outgrow?

· 4 min read
Hunter-Gatherers Worked 2-4 Hours a Day. Why Don't We?

Modern Life

Hunter-Gatherers Worked 2-4 Hours a Day. Why Don't We?

For most of human history, people met their needs on a few hours of work a day. The 40-hour week isn't human nature. It's a recent invention. This is where it came from, and where it might be going.

· 4 min read
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Recent Episodes

Why Didn't Evolution Eliminate Nearsightedness?

Podcast

Why Didn't Evolution Eliminate Nearsightedness?

Why didn’t evolution eliminate nearsightedness? If myopia made it harder for our ancestors to hunt, spot predators, and survive, why is it so common today? I’ve worn glasses since third grade, and for most of my life I wondered how bad eyesight c...

· 3 min watch
Money Isn't Real. So What Is It?

Podcast

Money Isn't Real. So What Is It?

Money isn't real. It's a tool for directing human attention. Wherever we collectively put our attention, that's where the money goes. In the movie Blow, George Jung's father tells his son that money isn't real, it only seems like it is. George sp...

· 6 min watch
Civilization Is a Ouija Board

Podcast

Civilization Is a Ouija Board

A Ouija board doesn't move on its own. It's called the ideomotor effect. What happens when you run that same mechanism on everything else? Our jobs, our markets, our feeds, the whole machine we call civilization. Billions of us with our hands on the same board, each pressing a little, all of us insisting someone else is steering.

· 5 min watch
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Recent Shorts

The Safe Path is Disappearing
Why You Should Never Venmo Your Friend Back
Some Of You Think I'm AI
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Andrew Henderson

I’m Andrew.

Writer · Software Engineer · Podcaster

I've spent fifteen years as a software engineer. Two years ago, after a difficult stretch in my career, I stepped away from full-time engineering and started exploring something I'd been curious about for years: online business and entrepreneurship.

Since then, I've built my own projects, helped others explore ways to build something of their own, and started writing about a much broader set of questions around work, technology, culture, and modern life.

Today, I'm a software engineer and writer. Engineering is still part of what I do, but writing has given me a way to explore the bigger questions I've become increasingly interested in: how technology changes us, how our work shapes our lives, and how much of what we consider normal is neither natural nor inevitable.

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