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Your Brain Was Built to Lose Money: Five Financial Panics That Prove It
Technology

Your Brain Was Built to Lose Money: Five Financial Panics That Prove It

Tulip bulbs. Railroad stocks. Dot-com IPOs. GameStop. The assets change every generation, but the psychological script running underneath every financial mania is remarkably consistent — because the brain making the decisions hasn't been updated in thousands of years. Here's the historical evidence, and what you can actually do with it.
A 17th-Century Londoner Wrote Down Exactly What 2020 Would Look Like. We Didn't Read It.
Science

A 17th-Century Londoner Wrote Down Exactly What 2020 Would Look Like. We Didn't Read It.

Samuel Pepys kept a meticulous diary through London's catastrophic 1665 plague outbreak, and he documented denial, panic-buying, class inequality, government failure, and premature normalcy with a journalist's eye. The uncomfortable part isn't how much it resembles 2020. The uncomfortable part is that we had the document the whole time.
From King of the Internet to Comeback Kid: The Wild History of Digg
Technology

From King of the Internet to Comeback Kid: The Wild History of Digg

Before Reddit became the self-proclaimed front page of the internet, there was Digg — a scrappy, user-powered news aggregator that briefly ruled the early web. This is the story of its meteoric rise, its spectacular collapse, and the ongoing effort to bring it back.