'In the 1930s, a month's salary was the suggested ring spend. In the 1980s, it became two months...the 'salary rule' is likely to remain...There will always be the question of who has the bigger ring, with girls comparing and boys not wanting to be outdone'bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…

'extraversion itself is fundamentally about the active pursuit of rewards, any kind of rewards..they love the chase, and they love getting what they chase...extraverts want rewards more...The whole process of reward-seeking makes them happier.' wiley.com/en-us/The+Pers…

I would never mock somebody for having a 9 to 5.

That life isn't for me personally, but anybody who earns an honest and ethical living should be saluted, not torn down. We need more of that. Not less.

From Boston Globe Ideas: Why are women becoming so much more liberal than men? trib.al/FS9sdIZ

Machiavelli's reading routine:

When 'elite' institutions turn into training grounds for semi-literate antisemites and plagiarists, the natural elites become the underclass.

My essay in The Spectator World's May edition is live online, feat. Rob Henderson and Batya Ungar-Sargon: thespectator.com/topic/how-woke…

One of my fav posters from this year's EHBEA.

Men compensate for mate-value imbalances with oral sex. (The more a woman dates down, the more her partner goes down.)

David Perell “From time to time I meet with a youth in whom I can wish for no alteration or improvement, only I am sorry to see how often his nature makes him quite ready to swim with the stream of the time; and it is on this that I would always insist, that man in his fragile boat has the…