• The Charisma Machine by Morgan G. Ames
• OLPC XO (Wikipedia)
• Selling a Charismatic Technology (LA Review of Books)
• The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (HBO documentary)
• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

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• The Good Place (ending spoilers!)
• Disco Elysium
• Star Trek: Picard
• The Morning Show (more spoilers)

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• The Dating Market: Thesis Overview (PDF, Tyro Partners)

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• Behold the Beefless ‘Impossible Whopper’ (NY Times)

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• Famous Authors Drag Student in Surreal YA Twitter Controversy (Vulture)
• Related Metafilter discussion
• Ghislaine Maxwell (Wikipedia)

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• Tikkun olam (Wikipedia)
• Effective altruism (Wikipedia)
• Kwame Anthony Appiah's Reith Lectures
• Religion for Atheists by Alain de Botton (Wikipedia)
• Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for events — and some are furious (The Verge)
  • Note: this has now been reversed
• Yahoo will delete all Yahoo Groups content on December 14th (The Verge)

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• Us (Wikipedia)
• Get Out (Wikipedia)

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• Russian Doll (Wikipedia)
• Attachment theory (Wikipedia)
• Naomi's podcast on Groundhog Day (On Being)

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• Are you really the ‘real’ you? (The Guardian) on Faking It
• Related Metafilter discussion
• Who do you think you are – and how bad could you be? (The Guardian)
• Person–situation debate (Wikipedia)
• Doggerland (In Our Time)
• Why Some Americans Won’t Move, Even for a Higher Salary (CityLab)

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• How many automated notifications do you turn off?
• Adrian has a new robovac

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