I love @asherperlman.bsky.social’s work. So I decided to ruin the magic by figuring out why. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Join mkonnikova.bsky.social and Nate Silver on Risky Business, the podcast where journalism meets high-stakes poker. Explore their analytical approach to decisions in politics, poker, and life, blending Maria's psychology insights and Nate's forecasting acumen.

To celebrate the start of the school year, I made you all a fiction reading list (and wrote a bit about it): open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Had such a blast talking to the wonderful Boston Rob for the Risky Business pod this week. (He also happened to be my HU opponent for the NBC National HU Championship!) lnk.to/vDRYVk

It's time we re-learn how to be bored. It's going to help a lot more than your poker game. New piece on the sub that stacks: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

I enjoyed reading and learning about "kindness contagion." Sort of the opposite of what we have going on in the US right now, which is a contagion of cruelty and performative cruelty.

When I was 12, I met someone whose kindness made all the difference. My new piece, on the phenomenon of kindness contagion: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Goodbye to a legend. My last living grandparent, Baba Anya, died at 100. We are all so lucky to have had her in our lives. open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

My latest, on mind sports, gender, competition, and Leo Margets's run in the WSOP main event: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Yesterday, for the first time ever, I busted the Main Event on Day 1. So, of course, I had to write about it. open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Why does it feel like I just graduated from college - but high school was forever ago? My latest, on the psychology of time perception: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

When it comes to life, don’t be a nit. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Thank you for this @kateconger.com We sympathize w/the position of the journalists not controlling the headlines. Headlines *shape* the way people process the text and are not functionally separate. Have you read this piece by @mkonnikova.bsky.social ? www.newyorker.com/science/mari...

This week's episode is a Cautionary Questions special with @natesilver538.tweet.pub and @mkonnikova.bsky.social . Give politicians a raise, smuggle phones into school, and go FULL DONK! timharford.com/2025/05/caut...

Pretty pretty.

Great essay by @mkonnikova.bsky.social about how the ambient norms in our environment dictate our behavior. In a society that cheats a lot? You will too. Copy-paste this to every other norm & how online spaces spread and reify them. mariakonnikova.substack.com/p/angle-shoo...

My latest, on how norms affect how we act - and when we cheat: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

OPINION TODAY featured podcast — Motivated Reasoning in the Biden Campaign, Silicon Valley, and Beyond. (Risky Business with Nate Silver and @mkonnikova.bsky.social) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/164066704/...

Some reflections on mindset and not being a victim, from my recent trip to Monte Carlo: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Some reflections on mindset and not being a victim, from my recent trip to Monte Carlo: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

This is fine…

On birthdays, lotteries, skill, and chance. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

On birthdays, lotteries, skill, and chance. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

Table for one, please! My latest, on why we should all eat out alone more often: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Mood.

Thanks so much!!

Table for one, please! My latest, on why we should all eat out alone more often: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

On this week’s Risky Business, it’s all about the tariffs. (And how Nate kicked my ass in March Madness brackets.) lnk.to/99VucE

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

I was curious about the history of April Fools' Day, so I did a deep dive for my stackable sub. It all goes back to the Holy Roman Empire, Emperor Constantine, and a court jester. open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

I wish I’d thought of this. Too good.

New phone, Houthis

Guys. I made my first ever March Madness Bracket! This is big for me. Huge thanks to Monte McNair for his expertise. "Our" bracket is going to go head to head with my Risky Business co-host, Nate Silver. Go, Team Maria/Monte!! Let's win this thing. open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

And this is how I learned a “national mango board” exists.

Join me and @mkonnikova.bsky.social for a conversation about my new book at 8 ET on Monday!

Happy Ides of March, everyone.

Can you change your personality for the better? This week, I talk to @theatlantic.com journalist @olgakhazan.bsky.social about her wonderful new book, ME BUT BETTER. Read our convo in link below, buy her book, and join us Monday for a live chat (details in post): open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

HARK DAILY: Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - How Trump is getting game theory all wrong on tariffs @mkonnikova.bsky.social - How the 'Severance' theme was created @hrishikesh.co - The hostage kept sane by a Seal song @sfstandard.com

On this week's Risky Business, Nate and I talk game theory and tariffs, and finish off with a bid to attend Fyre Festival, Take 2. Because clearly, it can't be a scam the *second* time around. lnk.to/9vDdYk

What can rock, paper, scissors teach us about randomness, pattern recognition, and exploitability? My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...

Three for three. @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social

No further comment. 🇺🇦

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

I didn’t think I was still capable of being as angry as I am right now. Zelensky is an absolute hero, in an impossible situation. Слава Україні, always. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Next time previews go too long, I’m claiming “mental agony.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

Always spot on, from @theonion.com

What it means to play a game of skill versus a game of chance - or a note to that dude who insisted on calling me a gambler last week. My latest on the sub that stacks: open.substack.com/pub/mariakon...