G.W. Schulz
@gw30.bsky.social
Emmy-winning former journalist and maker of the Ghost email series God Don’t Make No Trash. It’s about psychology, behavioral science, and life as an alcoholic journalist.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Self-portrait 2025. Everybody be cool this is a riot.
September 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Self-portrait 2025. Everybody be cool this is a riot.
This week from God Don’t Make No Trash, everything in reality is a paradox:
— Love humanity, hate people.
— Often wrong, never in doubt.
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
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— Love humanity, hate people.
— Often wrong, never in doubt.
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This week from God Don’t Make No Trash, everything in reality is a paradox:
— Love humanity, hate people.
— Often wrong, never in doubt.
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
— Love humanity, hate people.
— Often wrong, never in doubt.
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
I’m an Emmy-winning former journalist who was undone by alcoholism and mental illness.
Now I’m fascinated with how we think:
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
Now I’m fascinated with how we think:
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I’m an Emmy-winning former journalist who was undone by alcoholism and mental illness.
Now I’m fascinated with how we think:
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
Now I’m fascinated with how we think:
>>> God Don’t Make No Trash
>>> A newsletter on the mind
>>> GDMNT.com
From today's email:
"These evolutionary biases and errors don’t care what we think about them. They can't be bullied. They bully us."
Free will won't save us, because, as some neuroscientists say, free will is an illusion.
gdmnt.com/observe
"These evolutionary biases and errors don’t care what we think about them. They can't be bullied. They bully us."
Free will won't save us, because, as some neuroscientists say, free will is an illusion.
gdmnt.com/observe
September 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
From today's email:
"These evolutionary biases and errors don’t care what we think about them. They can't be bullied. They bully us."
Free will won't save us, because, as some neuroscientists say, free will is an illusion.
gdmnt.com/observe
"These evolutionary biases and errors don’t care what we think about them. They can't be bullied. They bully us."
Free will won't save us, because, as some neuroscientists say, free will is an illusion.
gdmnt.com/observe
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I took a dramatic photo of the Tulsa coffee shop where we had a dramatic debate about minor lateness: gdmnt.com/penny-schools
August 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I took a dramatic photo of the Tulsa coffee shop where we had a dramatic debate about minor lateness: gdmnt.com/penny-schools
gdmnt.com/dating-drunks
"I was in a love affair with alcohol. Nothing on earth could so effectively and thoroughly suspend my fire-breathing insecurities and anxieties."
"I was in a love affair with alcohol. Nothing on earth could so effectively and thoroughly suspend my fire-breathing insecurities and anxieties."
August 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
gdmnt.com/dating-drunks
"I was in a love affair with alcohol. Nothing on earth could so effectively and thoroughly suspend my fire-breathing insecurities and anxieties."
"I was in a love affair with alcohol. Nothing on earth could so effectively and thoroughly suspend my fire-breathing insecurities and anxieties."
"If you want real control, drop the illusion of control. Let life have you."
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
August 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"If you want real control, drop the illusion of control. Let life have you."
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
"If you want real control, drop the illusion of control. Let life have you."
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
August 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"If you want real control, drop the illusion of control. Let life have you."
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
—Author Byron Katie
gdmnt.com/pattern-hunters
"Studies in the 1950s showed that human beings were far quicker to conform to what the people around them were doing than we previously realized."
gdmnt.com/media-effects
gdmnt.com/media-effects
August 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Studies in the 1950s showed that human beings were far quicker to conform to what the people around them were doing than we previously realized."
gdmnt.com/media-effects
gdmnt.com/media-effects
"The human mind can make even doctors and business titans and world leaders into helpless fools and alcoholics. Despite major discoveries from scientists about the human mind and how it works, people still often believe they are somehow individually immune."
gdmnt.com/media-effects
gdmnt.com/media-effects
August 7, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"The human mind can make even doctors and business titans and world leaders into helpless fools and alcoholics. Despite major discoveries from scientists about the human mind and how it works, people still often believe they are somehow individually immune."
gdmnt.com/media-effects
gdmnt.com/media-effects
"I had been arguing that there were no scientific correlations between laziness, productivity, and minor lateness, even though our minds might want to assume it. Not everyone shared my views."
gdmnt.com/tradition-bound
gdmnt.com/tradition-bound
August 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"I had been arguing that there were no scientific correlations between laziness, productivity, and minor lateness, even though our minds might want to assume it. Not everyone shared my views."
gdmnt.com/tradition-bound
gdmnt.com/tradition-bound
"Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives. … Every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell."
--Legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman
>> gdmnt.com/jumping-machine
--Legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman
>> gdmnt.com/jumping-machine
August 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
"Conflict between an automatic reaction and an intention to control it is common in our lives. … Every human being has had the experience of not telling someone to go to hell."
--Legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman
>> gdmnt.com/jumping-machine
--Legendary psychologist Daniel Kahneman
>> gdmnt.com/jumping-machine
"Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals."
—Wikipedia
Here are some cognitive biases you should know about:
gdmnt.com/major-findings
—Wikipedia
Here are some cognitive biases you should know about:
gdmnt.com/major-findings
July 31, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals."
—Wikipedia
Here are some cognitive biases you should know about:
gdmnt.com/major-findings
—Wikipedia
Here are some cognitive biases you should know about:
gdmnt.com/major-findings
Goodness gracious, we got a heathen confessing to prejudice. In today's GDMNT, the wide-smiling Christians known as The Branson Family begin to teach me about judgment.
gdmnt.com/cool-liberal
gdmnt.com/cool-liberal
July 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Goodness gracious, we got a heathen confessing to prejudice. In today's GDMNT, the wide-smiling Christians known as The Branson Family begin to teach me about judgment.
gdmnt.com/cool-liberal
gdmnt.com/cool-liberal
"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been to jail at least once in their life."
—Filmmaker John Waters
gdmnt.com/confessions
—Filmmaker John Waters
gdmnt.com/confessions
July 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been to jail at least once in their life."
—Filmmaker John Waters
gdmnt.com/confessions
—Filmmaker John Waters
gdmnt.com/confessions
"I never thought I was good enough to be a journalist. I wouldn’t call myself one even two years after being paid to be one. I often shook quietly with anxiety. My mind raced."
gdmnt.com/muckraker
gdmnt.com/muckraker
July 17, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"I never thought I was good enough to be a journalist. I wouldn’t call myself one even two years after being paid to be one. I often shook quietly with anxiety. My mind raced."
gdmnt.com/muckraker
gdmnt.com/muckraker
Pictured is the parking lot where my second DUI arrest took place in Tulsa. I later returned with my camera.
What's new from God Don't Make No Trash?
America's favorite pastime is judgment. We're Simon Cowell when judging others but benevolent jurists when examining ourselves.
gdmnt.com/judgy
What's new from God Don't Make No Trash?
America's favorite pastime is judgment. We're Simon Cowell when judging others but benevolent jurists when examining ourselves.
gdmnt.com/judgy
July 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Pictured is the parking lot where my second DUI arrest took place in Tulsa. I later returned with my camera.
What's new from God Don't Make No Trash?
America's favorite pastime is judgment. We're Simon Cowell when judging others but benevolent jurists when examining ourselves.
gdmnt.com/judgy
What's new from God Don't Make No Trash?
America's favorite pastime is judgment. We're Simon Cowell when judging others but benevolent jurists when examining ourselves.
gdmnt.com/judgy
This week on God Don't Make No Trash: Why do we only call poor people trash?
July 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This week on God Don't Make No Trash: Why do we only call poor people trash?
Sigmund Freud wasn't impressed with America.
But he was right that the human mind could be understood better as two abstract parts: the conscious and unconscious minds.
gdmnt.com/conscious-effort
But he was right that the human mind could be understood better as two abstract parts: the conscious and unconscious minds.
gdmnt.com/conscious-effort
July 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Sigmund Freud wasn't impressed with America.
But he was right that the human mind could be understood better as two abstract parts: the conscious and unconscious minds.
gdmnt.com/conscious-effort
But he was right that the human mind could be understood better as two abstract parts: the conscious and unconscious minds.
gdmnt.com/conscious-effort
"We don't know when our media choices are rational or irrational."
Perhaps it doesn't matter to us.
gdmnt.com/wired-for-true-crime
Perhaps it doesn't matter to us.
gdmnt.com/wired-for-true-crime
July 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"We don't know when our media choices are rational or irrational."
Perhaps it doesn't matter to us.
gdmnt.com/wired-for-true-crime
Perhaps it doesn't matter to us.
gdmnt.com/wired-for-true-crime
"Grownups must live in fear of being called bad parents, which makes them a rich target for advertisers."
gdmnt.com/crowd-think
gdmnt.com/crowd-think
July 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"Grownups must live in fear of being called bad parents, which makes them a rich target for advertisers."
gdmnt.com/crowd-think
gdmnt.com/crowd-think
>> "These errors and biases lead to bad judgments we can't comprehend and behaviors we regret. Worse, we let other people decide the meaning of bad and the meaning of regret."
gdmnt.com/logical-creatures
gdmnt.com/logical-creatures
July 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
>> "These errors and biases lead to bad judgments we can't comprehend and behaviors we regret. Worse, we let other people decide the meaning of bad and the meaning of regret."
gdmnt.com/logical-creatures
gdmnt.com/logical-creatures