Derek Thompson

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"They want to watch their own Netflix and scroll their own TikTok in bed or on a couch."

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"Putnam's book Bowling Alone is actually really remarkable to read now even though it's now 26 years old. He has data about how frequently people are writing greeting cards to each other, how frequently they're calling each other on the phone or playing card games with each other, hosting cocktail parties."

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"Preventative plastic surgery like Botox is getting younger and younger in terms of its average age of user."

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"The psychologist Darby Saxbe had this really interesting point in her new book Dad Brain where she pointed out that new parent brains tend to suffer trauma when their kids are born. But if you look at parental brains decades later, they tend to have more neural connections and they tend to be richer."

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"Alfred Chandler is an historian who wrote a book called The Visible Hand about the invention of managerial capitalism in the 19th century."