It's Not Just You - Here's Why TED Talks are All Starting to Sound the Same

How Reverse-Engineering for Breakout Hits Creates a Sea of Sameness

May 28 • Karla Starr

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April 2026

How Authors Can Make More Money (Without Selling More Copies) with Karla Starr

A recording from Karla Starr and Panio Gianopoulos's live video

Apr 29 • Karla Starr and Panio Gianopoulos

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March 2026

People are Just as Weird and Poor as Ever —Just Not on Chip Heath or Adam Mastroianni's Feeds

The epistemological blindness of tenure

Mar 28

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February 2026

How to Avoid Choking: Performing as a Neurodivergent Queer Female Edition

When Identity Complexity Makes it Harder to Perform

Feb 19 • Karla Starr

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It's the 23nd Anniversary of My Day of Not Dying

Life is beautiful but unfair; introducing The Alchemy of Rage

Feb 1 • Karla Starr

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January 2026

On Pruning the Need for Preparation Theater

I didn't need a better system: I needed courage; Letting Go of the Anxiety-Inducing Mechanism of Beginning Again

Jan 26 • Karla Starr

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2026 is the year I'm finally getting my shit together, I swear

This January, join me in "life pruning" before we set new goals

Jan 15 • Karla Starr

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April 2024

Honey, You're Just a Spring Chicken

Why We Need to Stop Saying "I'm Too Old" and Also No More "40 Under 40" Lists Plz

Apr 26, 2024 • Karla Starr

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March 2024

How to Be a Human in a Post-Truth World

On Attention Regulation and other Soft Skills for the Apocalypse

Mar 10, 2024 • Karla Starr

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Why Being in Charge of Housework is Exhausting

The Mental Load as Unescapable Domestic Affordances

Mar 4, 2024 • Karla Starr

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February 2024

The Case for Making Huge Changes

Buy that house, quit those friends, do that thing

Feb 6, 2024 • Karla Starr

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September 2023

Why "Irrational" Choices Make Biological Sense: Putting the Human Back in Decision-Making

Behavioral Economists' Obsession with Weaponizing Rationality

Sep 7, 2023 • Karla Starr

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