The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And so instead, setting those micro goals of groups of 10 is going to be useful, because as we start to get to number eight or nine, or number 88 or 89, and it's really getting hard, we need that extra little hedonic hit of pleasure of accomplishment, the micro dopamine rush that you might get by hitting another decade milestone, another group-of-10 milestone.
Every Sunday: the week’s new conflicts and verdict changes — and nothing else.
Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
but what about 25? Okay, yeah, I might feel pretty good about that. Well, what about the next group of 25 and now I'm at 50? Those are goals that might seem just beyond the brink of what's possible, but I will feel good when I hit that, and that's going to give me the next sort of boost of energy that I'm going to need to go a little bit further, either that time or the next time.