Voor de Nederlandse volgers: een hilarisch accurate beschrijving van het ondergaan van een MRI-scan 😁🧪

Does money make you happy? In a new post, I reviewed the adversarial collaboration between
Daniel Kahneman and Matthew Killingsworth that attempted to answer this age-old question. Had a lot of fun writing this! jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispa...

❗ 27% of American adults are "most days so stressed they can't function" (representative APA survey from 2022).
🧠 But 100 years ago, legendary economist John Maynard Keynes predicted we would all live a life of leisure.
🤔 What happened? I wrote a post about it, link in bio

I wrote a Christmas-inspired newsletter this week, full of fascinating insights about the placebo effect. Read on: jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/the-perple... Happy holidays!

Trying to find median household income per month for Moldova, but lack the training... Using World Bank Poverty & Inequality Platform, I found survey median consumption at $10.6 per day (2017 PPP). Does this translate to 30*10.6 = $318 per month? 🤔 Help! #EconSky pip.worldbank.org/poverty-calc...

A surprising number of American parents are giving their children melatonin for sleeping. 😴 This fits in a larger trend of modern life: a counterproductive need for control, which leaves us less resilient to adversity and change. 🧠 Read more ==> jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/what-the-u...

This week I dove into the trends on loneliness in the US and what they mean for mental health. It's not pretty, and we're not solving the problem in a productive way. Let me know what you think at jeroenvanbaar.substack.com/p/data-dispa...

I asked DALL-E 2 to draw itself, and this is what it gave me. Creepy!
(Prompt: "a photorealistic image of DALL-E")

Trying out proto-AI therapist ELIZA from the 1960s. It got pretty philosophical pretty quickly web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...

Very cool! In my view this is even more powerful when uncoupling the projection from its usual orientation, to really see the world through fresh eyes: