Mike Pietrus, Psy.D
@mppsyd.bsky.social
Clinical Psychologist at UChicago Student Wellness
Psychology - Music - Film
Attention - Motivation
https://mppsyd.com/
Psychology - Music - Film
Attention - Motivation
https://mppsyd.com/
“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money...
October 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money...
... Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."
-David Foster Wallace
-David Foster Wallace
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
... Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."
-David Foster Wallace
-David Foster Wallace
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May 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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A question clinicians need to be comfortable asking themselves:
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
April 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
A question clinicians need to be comfortable asking themselves:
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
Added a whole bunch of news tunes to the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ze...
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March 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Added a whole bunch of news tunes to the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ze...
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Reunited Zambian rock legends WITCH announce new album 'SOGOLO'; hear the funky, life-affirming single 'Queenless King"
WITCH Announce New Album 'SOGOLO': Hear "Queenless King"
Back in the ’70s and ’80s, the Zambian band WITCH pioneered the subgenre known as Zamrock, a specific fusion of psychedelic rock and African music. WITCH broke up in the mid-’80s, but they reunited an...
www.stereogum.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Reunited Zambian rock legends WITCH announce new album 'SOGOLO'; hear the funky, life-affirming single 'Queenless King"
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It sucks having no regulation or laws for bots on social media. It's best to be dubious of anything that goes super viral and critically analyze it before automatically assuming it's a popular sentiment. Stop and question who benefits from it going viral before accepting it as real engagement.
February 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It sucks having no regulation or laws for bots on social media. It's best to be dubious of anything that goes super viral and critically analyze it before automatically assuming it's a popular sentiment. Stop and question who benefits from it going viral before accepting it as real engagement.
"With all these traits, the podcast is a terrible form for serious science communication… but great for giving the impression of depth and rigor with minimal effort."
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chicagomaroon.com/45533/viewpo...
Against the Podcasters
I have come to believe very strongly that podcasting is the devil’s work. Over winter break, Freakonomics Radio host Stephen Dubner updated a story from last January, “Why Is There So Much Fraud in A...
chicagomaroon.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"With all these traits, the podcast is a terrible form for serious science communication… but great for giving the impression of depth and rigor with minimal effort."
chicagomaroon.com/45533/viewpo...
chicagomaroon.com/45533/viewpo...
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Hemingway, evergreen
February 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hemingway, evergreen
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Great to be back at UChicago Institute of Politics tonight. Tune in.
The Future of the Democratic Party
YouTube video by UChicago Institute of Politics
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February 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Great to be back at UChicago Institute of Politics tonight. Tune in.
you know I still remember
One Last Dance
Baby Rose, BADBADNOTGOOD · Slow Burn · Song · 2024
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February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
you know I still remember
please don’t live in fear
PDLIF
Bon Iver · PDLIF · Song · 2020
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February 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
please don’t live in fear
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“When you speed up the exchange of messages and information beyond a certain point, you actually overwhelm the mind’s ability to make sense of it all in a deep way,” Nicholas Carr tells Don Peck in Time-Travel Thursdays.
Nicholas Carr: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?
A conversation about how online life has rewired our brains
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“When you speed up the exchange of messages and information beyond a certain point, you actually overwhelm the mind’s ability to make sense of it all in a deep way,” Nicholas Carr tells Don Peck in Time-Travel Thursdays.
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Here's The Killers playing Mr. Brightside for an indifferent audience in 2002, two years before the album. They think it sounds like dogshit! No one in that room thought it was going to be one of the biggest hits of all time! Let this inspire you somehow idk
January 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Here's The Killers playing Mr. Brightside for an indifferent audience in 2002, two years before the album. They think it sounds like dogshit! No one in that room thought it was going to be one of the biggest hits of all time! Let this inspire you somehow idk
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I believe “technique” is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist’s unique encounter with the patient. Whenever I suggest some intervention to my supervisees they often try to cram it into the next session and it always bombs.
- Irvin Yalom
- Irvin Yalom
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I believe “technique” is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist’s unique encounter with the patient. Whenever I suggest some intervention to my supervisees they often try to cram it into the next session and it always bombs.
- Irvin Yalom
- Irvin Yalom
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My point is that every course of therapy consists of small and large spontaneously generated responses or techniques that are impossible to program in advance.
- Irvin Yalom
- Irvin Yalom
January 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My point is that every course of therapy consists of small and large spontaneously generated responses or techniques that are impossible to program in advance.
- Irvin Yalom
- Irvin Yalom
Magnificent
A ★★★★★ review of The Wild Robot (2024)
Magnificent
boxd.it
January 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Magnificent
“as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention.”
The Difference Between TikTok and Free Expression
The algorithmic manipulation of users’ attention is not the same thing as actual human speech.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention.”
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There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without
January 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Jeff Tweedy was the lead singer for a twee Steely Dan…
open.spotify.com/track/6JJ3UK...
open.spotify.com/track/6JJ3UK...
Right on time
Metronomy · Small World · Song · 2022
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January 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Jeff Tweedy was the lead singer for a twee Steely Dan…
open.spotify.com/track/6JJ3UK...
open.spotify.com/track/6JJ3UK...
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The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro explores what this means for our approach to mental healthcare in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com
January 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
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This is a beautiful tribute.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is a beautiful tribute.
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Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
January 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
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Our new paper on why people love sad art
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Our new paper on why people love sad art
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
osf.io/preprints/ps...
“It goes so fast … I didn’t realize,” she says. “All that was going on and we never noticed.” Another ghost replies: “That’s what it was to be alive … To spend and waste time as though you had a million years.”
Parents’ impulse to be constantly documenting their kids’ lives via phone camera is understandable.
But in doing so, Russell Shaw writes, people risk missing out on the truly important moments: theatln.tc/uKpK0Q1J
But in doing so, Russell Shaw writes, people risk missing out on the truly important moments: theatln.tc/uKpK0Q1J
Parents, Put Down Your Phone Cameras
In trying to capture so much of our kids’ lives, we risk missing out.
theatln.tc
January 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
“It goes so fast … I didn’t realize,” she says. “All that was going on and we never noticed.” Another ghost replies: “That’s what it was to be alive … To spend and waste time as though you had a million years.”