cultural evolution Rewriting Genes Before DNA I am currently writing a book titled What Information Wants. It looks at how information flows have changed over history. It starts by looking at the past: how the big bang led to
information The Culture War Wants You When the latest culture war clash (like Basecamp's apolitical manifesto) appears in your newsfeed, what does it feel like? Do you want to click it? Do you feel pulled towards it? If you're
information Medium-Message Fit When a product is a good fit for the market's needs, we call it Product-Market Fit. The product Uber fit our needs to conveniently get around a city. In biological evolution, when genes
cultural evolution Biology-Culture Fit Biology-culture fit is the extent to which cultural adaptations fit onto our biological anchors. For example, we can't make biological ants believe in a Sun God. Ants' simple biology isn't a good anchor
book review Book Review: Cultural Evolution More than 45 years ago, I argued in The Silent Revolution that "A transformation may be taking place in the political culture of advanced industrial societies. This transformation seems to be altering the
psychology Post-WEIRD Nacirema Psychology From 2000-2200, the customs of the Nacirema tribe shifted considerably. At the start of the 21st century, they were leaders of a pan-capitalist ideological superstructure. But as the decades unfurled, their monolithic stature