Substacks recommended by Lionel Page

Recommended by Lionel Page

Built for People

By Angèle Lenglemetz

The psychology of great products—how to design, build, and lead with user behavior in mind.

Ideas Big & Simple

By Thom Scott-Phillips

Short essays about big ideas. I study what makes us human, from evolution to jazz.

Thom is a cognitive and evolutionary scientist whose publications have contributed to improving our understanding of the fundamental principles of human communication, answering why and how we communicate.

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Symbolic Capital(ism)

By Musa al-Gharbi

Exploring the relationships between social justice discourse, inequality, and the rise of the symbolic professions.

Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist with a Bourdieusian outlook on intellectual elites and their evolution.

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Conspicuous Cognition

By Dan Williams

Writer. Academic philosopher. Writing about philosophy, psychology, evolution, politics, artificial intelligence, and more.

Excellent insights on how people reason and navigate social interactions.

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Doublethink

By Lewis O'Brien

Illustrated Ideas

Great illustrations of concepts in behavioural sciences.

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Koenfucius’s Substack

Seeking to understand our behaviour - what we do, how we decide what to do and how to do it, and why we do it.

Koen's insightful posts link the results from research in behavioural economics to many questions of interest to a broad public.

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Ruxandra's Substack

By Ruxandra Teslo

Pro-progress, anti-safetyist commentary on Scientific & Cultural matters from a Genomics PhD. Attempting to shape culture towards optimism, an abundance mindset & freedom.

Thoughtful and informed takes about current debates on scientific and cultural matters, going beyond partisan lines.

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Everything Is Bullshit

By Everything Is BS

Poking holes in the stories we tell ourselves

Signaling games are ubiquitous in society, yet they often hinge on the denial of their own existence. This results in a pervasive disconnect between the logic driving people's actions and the way they describe their behavior. This disconnection is colloquially referred to as "BS". In his blog, David methodically deconstructs this disconnect.

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Aldo’s Substack

By Aldo Rustichini

Neuroeconomic, game theoretic view of current history

A leading economic theorist who genuinely integrates insights from neuroscience into the study of economic decisions.

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Living Fossils

The purpose of The Living Fossils is to communicate how the application of evolutionary ideas can help explain the sources of psychological suffering and well-being, in the service of improving our understanding of mental health.

A very interesting Substack taking an evolutionary perspective to discuss topics in psychology.

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Stranger Apologies

By Kevin Dorst

Philosopher at MIT, trying to convince people that their opponents are more reasonable than they think.

Philosopher Kevin Dorst meticulously investigates the good reasons behind some classical 'biases'. It includes insights from his own published research on the topic.

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You Are a Story with Will Storr

A newsletter about about telling, being and believing stories. Exploring how to live better lives and write better stories, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling

Will Storr’s book on status is one of the most insightful you’ll find for understanding society. Highly recommended.

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The Prism

By Gurwinder

A guide to navigating the digital age

Very well-thought-out posts on topics from psychology to politics, informed by insights from behavioural sciences.

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The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter

By Steve Stewart-Williams

The newsletter of Professor Steve Stewart-Williams. Evolutionary psychology, sex differences, nature and nurture, science, philosophy, and more.

Steve Stewart-Williams, well-known author of "The Ape That Understood the Universe", discusses psychology, human interactions and society

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The Power of Us

By Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel

Our newsletter is designed to help people get smarter about groups and make groups smarter. Each week, we share science and the stories of social identity, group dynamics, and collective behavior in organizations and society.

Very interesting posts on the psychology of social identity.

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Jason Collins blog

Behavioural economics, data science and artificial intelligence

Jason's blog, created in 2010, is a small institution in behavioural economics. He discusses the discipline critically with interesting insights on adaptive explanations.

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Muthukrishna Lab

By Michael Muthukrishna

An extension to my lab at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Michael Muthukrishna's insightful look at social questions through the lens of cultural evolution.

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Imperfect Information

By Rajiv Sethi

On economics, identity, justice, and discourse...

Thoughtful discussions of current issues with insights from economics and other social sciences

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Optimally Irrational

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