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How to Actually Access Your Mental Health Benefits
Insurance companies in this country have figured out a quietly profitable trick. They sell you a plan that technically includes mental health coverage, they staff a member-services line…
Jul 29, 2025
What Every Insurance Term Actually Means (And Which Ones Matter)
Insurance companies don't write their paperwork to be understood. They write it to be unfalsifiable, which is a different problem.
Jul 26, 2025
How Health Insurance Actually Works
Health insurance is confusing on purpose.
Jul 24, 2025
Modafinil and the productivity stack
Modafinil is the drug a lot of guys in tech, finance, and the productivity-bro corners of the internet are taking off-label, often without a prescription,…
Jul 10, 2025
AI girlfriends and male loneliness
The number of guys using Replika, Character.ai, and the half-dozen newer AI companion apps has gone vertical in the last couple of years, and it’s showing up in…
Jul 8, 2025
IV Skin and Beauty
An IV skin-and-beauty drip is, almost without exception, a bag of saline with some combination of vitamin C, B vitamins, biotin, and (depending on the…
Jul 7, 2025
Decline of male friendship after 40
The data on this is what it sounds like.
Jul 5, 2025
Jonathan Haidt’s Anxious Generation: what’s right and overstated
Haidt’s argument in The Anxious Generation is that smartphones and social media, hitting kids hard around 2012, broke teen mental health. The data on adolescent depression and anxiety…
Jul 3, 2025
Freedom Costs Blood. Mental Health Costs Choices.
Freedom isn’t free. Neither is good mental health.
Jun 13, 2025
The Story I’m Telling Myself Is…
Most people do not get taken out by facts first. They get taken out by what the facts start to mean. You send a text and do not hear back.
Jun 11, 2025
Expectations Hurt Us More Than People Do
A lot of disappointment starts long before anyone actually does anything wrong. It starts in the quiet little contract we made in our own head.
Jun 8, 2025
Why “Rock Bottom” Is Bullshit
Rock bottom is bullshit.
May 6, 2025