How do you make good decisions when millions are on the line? My latest, with a throwback to my own psych research with Walter Mischel and insights from one of the best poker players in the world, Jason Koon: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
This is so, so good
Zero Americans benefit from this.
All of us, every Conservative and every Liberal American, are watching our future hobbled.
Shattering a treasured national asset: our former status as the top destination for global talent, hard-wrought by generations of visionary Republicans and Democrats.
What does it mean to be human - and how can we keep that in the face of ever-more-powerful technology? My latest, inspired by the late great Kurt Vonnegut: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
It took me a while to put my thoughts together, but I had to write about that Atlantic piece--even though I've never placed a single sports bet in my life: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
Maria Konnikova
Welcome to poker, Kylie. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
When I was in Paris, I had a meal that came with some fairly strict rules. My latest, on the current crisis of attention: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
Christopher Mims
Happy book birthday,
@jenshahade.bsky.social! Read an excerpt in the link below--and also find out why, to this day, I find chess traumatic: mariakonnikova.substack.com/p/playing-ch...
"To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine: it is to kill a man." My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...
Maria Konnikova
"It takes far more courage to stare down the barrel of a gun while you’re armed with only a whistle and a phone than it does to point a gun at an unarmed protester." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Michael Clemens
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Student visas for Africa’s best and brightest were canceled by the Trump administration, leaving behind empty seats and broken dreams.
