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Thought leadership from Rob Volpe
Exposure Is Not the Same as Contact (Here's the Psychology)
He kept his intelligence and his memories of facts. He lost every personal moment of his own life, past and future alike. Here's what K.C.'s story reveals about hope, memory, and empathy.
The Man Who Lost His Feelings: What Elliot Teaches Us About Emotion, Decisions, and AI
He kept his intelligence and his memories of facts. He lost every personal moment of his own life, past and future alike. Here's what K.C.'s story reveals about hope, memory, and empathy.
The Editor We All Have (And Mostly Ignore)
A night spent helping my grandma "land the plane" at 104, Maria Ross's twenty-good-summers math, and the research that explains both: death anxiety makes us defensive and tribal, while death reflection — contemplating mortality on purpose — turns us toward the people who matter. This edition of Reading Between the Lines walks through the difference, why it's a choice, and four questions worth sitting with this week.
The Aware Animal: Why 95% of Us Think We're Self-Aware (and What the Rest of Us Are Missing)
95% of people believe they're self-aware. In Tasha Eurich's research, only 10 to 15% actually are. This edition of Reading Between the Lines covers the one-word fix, why introspection alone becomes an echo chamber, and the launch of What Does It Mean to Be Human?, my new podcast series with Maria Ross.