A Tale of Two Johns

The borrowed mind

Notes from John Nosta's book

He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.

John Coogan on Twitter / X

Best thing I’ve read recently. pic.twitter.com/FOksO0RDkR— John Coogan (@johncoogan) March 24, 2025

Chris Hayes on the attention economy

A conversation about how attention was commodified, why it's so easy to steal, where industry is looking for new supplies, and whether democracy can survive this.

Taking Love Seriously: What Ancient Wisdom & Modern Psychology Say About Interconnectedness - The Great Simplification

In this episode, Nate welcomes Dr. John Churchill, a psychologist and former Buddhist monk, to explore a map of human development that runs from "first-person" perspective of the isolated self all the way to a felt, embodied sense of interdependence with the planet itself.

An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company

An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about building OpenAI and ChatGPT, and what it means to be an accidental consumer tech company.

Live, Laugh, Localhost · Sam Henri Gold

How switching to Localhost saved me tens of millions of dollars

The Hero with a thousand faces

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psy…

Stories of Hope: The richest man in the world has autism - The Behavior Exchange

​Our new monthly blog series, Stories of Hope, can help! This month you’ll read about the journey of a famous person who, despite ASD, is arguably one of the most influential people in the world. Hint: You might own one of his cars!

Tech moguls Altman, Bezos and Zuckerberg donate to Trump's inauguration fund

The donations are seen as the latest example of tech moguls' changing stance toward the incoming president. During his first administration, Trump clashed with Bezos and Zuckerberg.

Cas (Stephen Casper) on Twitter / X

It is hard to overstate how disappointing I think this new paper from Oxford, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (et al) is. I can't take it seriously as academic work, just as propaganda. It also has some very bad scholarship and questionable adherence to research ethics. Having… pic.twitter.com/Z5fBx360ya— Cas (Stephen Casper) (@StephenLCasper) May 13, 2026

Misbehaving: the making of behavioral economics

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career s…