The Week: How Leverage Broke the AI Trade

The Week: How Leverage Broke the AI Trade · Aug 7, 2026 Society & Culture

Outside South Korea's National Assembly, protesters have stacked funeral wreaths on the sidewalk demanding an end to single-stock leveraged ETFs. Seventy percent of investors in Samsung and SK Hynix leveraged products are in the red. South Korea has rolled out a debt counseling hotline as part of its national suicide prevention program.

Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David · Aug 7, 2026 Society & Culture

After her father died when she was 15, Susan David spiraled into bulimia while performing strength at school. An English teacher handed her a blank notebook with one instruction — 'write like no one is reading' — and that single act of being seen launched 20 years of emotions research.

Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David · Aug 7, 2026 Society & Culture

Nelson Mandela didn't suppress his anger at apartheid — he let it signal his values. But he also knew emotions are data, not directives. To move toward equality, he had to sit down with his oppressor. His emotions pointed the way; his values chose the action.

Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David · Aug 7, 2026 Society & Culture

We talk endlessly about external bias, but rarely about self-bias — the moment under stress when you fall back on your upbringing's narrative and use it against yourself. 'Maybe they were right, maybe I'm not cut out for this.' A 10-minute values-writing exercise can break that pattern for years.

Why Forced Positivity Is Making You Miserable | Susan David · Aug 7, 2026 Society & Culture

Susan David's three truths: there is a 5-year-old inside you asking to be seen; self-compassion is the cornerstone of resilience, not weakness; and courage is not the absence of fear but fear walking — holding both terror and values simultaneously, the way her dying father taught her.

The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtabl… · Aug 6, 2026 Society & Culture

Dating apps make it look like a tiny fraction of men hoard all female attention, but actual partner-count data tells a different story. The promiscuous 10-20% of men are largely having sex with the equally promiscuous 10-18% of women — they're just very visible online.

The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtabl… · Aug 6, 2026 Society & Culture

Roughly 18-20% of men and 12-18% of women report 3+ sexual partners per year, and these groups largely overlap. The vast majority of sex happens in relationships; casual sex is the brown dwarf at the edge of the galaxy.

The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtabl… · Aug 6, 2026 Society & Culture

Monogamous marriage functioned as a sexual redistribution system: it guaranteed even average men access to a partner by constraining the mating market. Researchers call it 'sexual communism'. Now that guardrail is gone.

The New Science Of Female Attraction - Psychology Roundtabl… · Aug 6, 2026 Society & Culture

Wealthy women don't abandon hypergamy when they earn more — they develop higher standards across every dimension. They want richer AND hotter AND more involved fathers. The social role theory prediction that female resource preferences would vanish has repeatedly failed.