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Nov 25, 2022

Why Dr Melfi Stopped Seeing Tony

The more important part of The Sopranos ending — Dr Melfi has always stuck to her guns with Tony, believing she can understand him and help him change. She always kept her doors open to Tony despite his unsolicited advances and her potential danger. Even when she was told about that paper, she resisted. She didn’t want to believe…

The Sopranos

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Why Dr Melfi Stopped Seeing Tony
Why Dr Melfi Stopped Seeing Tony
The Sopranos

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Nov 7, 2022

Happiness After Inflation

What is the new $75k? — We’re all aware that these are tough times, especially for the post-Boomer generations. While it used to be possible for a single-income household by a White man with a high school diploma to be able to buy a single detached house, a mid-range car, and raise a family of four…

Money

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Happiness After Inflation
Happiness After Inflation
Money

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Published in TOMO Philosophy

·May 28, 2022

Making Friends in School was Easy

But why it’s so hard outside of it? — Remember how we used to make friends as kids? A little 5 or 6 year old would waddle over to another kid and say, “Will you be my friend?” and boom. They’re friends. And probably will be throughout elementary school at least. If we move up to junior high or…

Schools

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Making Friends in School was Easy
Making Friends in School was Easy
Schools

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May 26, 2022

Mass Shootings are Vengeful Suicides

What we can learn from the backstories of these tragedies — There’s no way to spin these kind of stories, so let’s dive straight into the facts and figures of the shooters. These are outlined by the US National Institute of Justice and the LA Times. They are all male They have had a history of personal trauma They had experienced…

Mental Health

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Mental Health

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Published in TOMO Philosophy

·May 21, 2022

Social Health = Wellbeing

In a time of growing isolation, anxiety, and distrust we should refocus on what’s important, each other. — Ever since the earliest days of civilization, the concept of health and wellbeing has been around. …

Metaverse

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Social Health = Wellbeing
Social Health = Wellbeing
Metaverse

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Published in Geek Culture

·May 8, 2022

Data Diets

It’s time to start thinking seriously about what we feed our brains — Long before the advent of modern medicine, the idea of a diet didn’t really exist. People just ate…food. It was clear that the need for food is universal to keep life going. Maybe some of it tasted better, or was easier or harder to make, but food was just food…

Food

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Data Diets
Data Diets
Food

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Published in Geek Culture

·Apr 14, 2022

Sensetech and Real-Life Superpowers

Sensory substitution may be the key to becoming superhuman — Imagine being brought into a room with twelve people and your tasked to diagnose which ones have Parkinson’s disease and which ones didn’t. There’s no tricks. Half of them have been officially diagnosed, and half of them do not have any diagnosis. You’re just a regular human being and this…

Psychology

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Sensetech and Real-Life Superpowers
Sensetech and Real-Life Superpowers
Psychology

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Feb 13, 2022

Why Dating Apps Make You Feel Bad

And some possible ways to make it a little better — Most of us want to fall in love. If there was such a thing as a universal desire, other than, you know, staying alive, it would be love. But the dating experience has started to shift very dramatically in the last little while. Meeting a partner used to be through…

Dating

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Why Dating Apps Make You Feel Bad
Why Dating Apps Make You Feel Bad
Dating

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Feb 5, 2022

When Too Much Wealth Becomes Cancerous

Growth is fine if everyone grows together, but turns malignant when hyper-concentrated The age of the trickle-down and the bootstrapping economy has been the defining story of the last generation. In the times after the war, rebuilding and true growth was possible at extraordinary rates. It was the capstone to…

Wealth

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When Too Much Wealth Becomes Cancerous
When Too Much Wealth Becomes Cancerous
Wealth

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Dec 27, 2021

The Mentally Unstable Men of Tech

Or why they’re terrible role models with questionable morals — In the modern world of social media and constant advertising the image of reality is clearly distorted. Most of the products don’t look like how they do on the box. Many influencers on Instagram digitally alter themselves. Nothing is as it seems. This same principle applies to big tech, yet…

Tech

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The Mentally Unstable Men of Tech
The Mentally Unstable Men of Tech
Tech

10 min read

Jacky Tang

Jacky Tang

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A software-psychology guy breaking down the way we think as individuals and collectives

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