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[@robkhenderson](/creator/twitter/robkhenderson)
"Starting to get the sense that this guy is motivated by something other than affordability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1973786643338608737) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-02T16:26Z 177.9K followers, 639.5K engagements


"Relative to Americans with a high school education Americans with graduate degrees are twice as likely to support political violence. More education = higher support for political violence. It couldn't be otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1975023686794256520) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-06T02:21Z 177.9K followers, 125.4K engagements


"Sometimes people conceal or downplay their accomplishments. At first glance you might think people always want to show offto brag about their accomplishments so that others will like and respect them. But psychologists have found that in many situations people do the opposite. They downplay their skills make self-effacing jokes or offer self-deprecating remarks to avoid standing out too much. The idea is that people are often acutely aware of the dangers of envy. They dont want to appear too impressive or attract resentment. In Australia theres even a phrase for this: the tall poppy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1976046538293117396) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-08T22:06Z 177.9K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Montaigne: Obsessive writing is a symptom of social decay. People scribbling instead of actually working just as Rome did before it fell. "Such busy idleness arises from everyone slacking over the duties of his vocation and being enticed away.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1976078881703460992) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-09T00:14Z 177.9K followers, 12.8K engagements


""an AI-ified world wont mean the marginalization of humans.AI is.better at chess than Magnus Carlsen.but no one shows up to watch AI chess engines play each other and more people are playing chess than ever before.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1977468200766804322) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-12T20:15Z 177.9K followers, 12.1K engagements


"Interesting:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978280511995818365) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-15T02:03Z 177.9K followers, 9930 engagements


"Today has been a stressful day of travel. Endless flight cancellations and delays. I got an uber black to treat myself and my driver smells like he ran an ultramarathon yesterday and slept in his clothes. But I just noticed my tweet drafts sync across devices now. God listens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978639086304014807) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-16T01:48Z 177.9K followers, 12.3K engagements


""Students walked out of class to roam the school.Provided they claimed their mental health required this all disruptive behavior was excused or explicitly welcomed.Every public teacher I interviewed said the same: kids' behavior has deteriorated.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1977830620299706879) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-13T20:15Z 177.9K followers, 38.1K engagements


""the problematic notion that 'schools are community institutions'.a politically convenient concept that allows schools to get away with poor performance and drift from their core mission making education about everything but academic performance.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978903628724228246) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-16T19:19Z 177.9K followers, 5499 engagements


"Who is an acceptable role model for teenage boys and young men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1769130554924904607) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2024-03-16T22:36Z 177.9K followers, 13.6M engagements


"I'm envisioning an alternate version of reality where a male politician body shames a woman for her weight is met with outrage then makes a TikTok saying "I meant how fat someone is on the inside. If you're a good mom you're XXX pounds. If you're rude you're a XXX lb whale.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1976085742427258972) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-09T00:42Z 177.9K followers, 446.9K engagements


""The good life is a complicated life.Life even when it's good is not easy. There is simply no way to make life perfect and if there were then it wouldn't be good.a good lifeis forged from precisely the things that make it hard.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979727076858253583) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T01:51Z 177.9K followers, 9562 engagements


"I just want someone to ask Mamdani why he wears X different rings on his fingers. A grown man. Why so much jewelry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979229409086443819) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-17T16:53Z 177.9K followers, 34.6K engagements


""Far from being especially prone to disruption or innovation degree holders have grown increasingly unlikely to start their own businesses.the share of entrepreneurs with a BA or higher fell by more than half between 1985 and 2014.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979237768636305441) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-17T17:27Z 177.9K followers, 7408 engagements


"@grok ChatGPT and Claude are giving me very different answers --"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980090616886460690) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-20T01:56Z 177.9K followers, XXX engagements


"No one should ever make distinctions between crimes. Whether you smoke a little too close to the restaurant park a little too close to the fire hydrant or shatter the orbital socket of an elderly woman youre a criminal all the same"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1961602234304582077) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-08-30T01:29Z 177.9K followers, 40K engagements


"Whenever you post something like "X is associated with Y" or "X can sometimes mean Y" and a commenter replies with something like "That's not always true" you have to block them. Not (only) because they are annoying but also because that is not a person who should be exposed to nuanced information. You gotta protect them from themselves"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978586156687380855) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-15T22:17Z 177.9K followers, 26.5K engagements


"Graduates from lower-ranked colleges who land jobs at elite firms are happier than Harvard or Stanford graduates in those same roles. The reason is simple: for the former those jobs exceeded expectations; for the latter they matched or fell short of them. Privilege itself can foster a sense of stasis or declinewhen youre born into and surrounded by overachievers even respectable accomplishments can feel second-rate. That was one of the most interesting parts of the book Pedigree which I recommend. The sociologist Lauren Rivera interviewed people working at top law firms consultancies and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979264979678478507) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-17T19:15Z 177.9K followers, 15.8K engagements


""when you look at societies with very high rates of pathological depression.two things stand out: a high value placed on individualism and high relational mobility (meaning lots of turnover in the characters that inhabit your life).""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979377595042156659) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-18T02:42Z 177.9K followers, 27.8K engagements


"Starting to think affordability is not number one on this guys agenda"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979616791837188496) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-18T18:33Z 177.9K followers, 169.6K engagements


""For much of our evolutionary past infections were the leading cause of death.For both hunter-hunter gatherer societies and our nearest evolutionary relatives chimpanzees about seven out of every XX deaths can be attributed to infections.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979947753544495154) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T16:28Z 177.9K followers, 6440 engagements


"Workaholism is fine but promoting it as an aspirational lifestyle for everyone is a right wing luxury belief"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979963913895891289) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T17:32Z 177.9K followers, 62.3K engagements


""age differences in the Dark Triad often dwarf sex differences. So for example while men are somewhat more Machiavellian than women at every age young women are far more Machiavellian than middle-aged men.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980057486972658040) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T23:44Z 177.9K followers, 50K engagements


"@grok Why do other models separate theater deployments with total military service for Vietnam era veterans but not for WW2 veterans (not all veterans during WW2 deployed overseas)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980091501553319972) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-20T01:59Z 177.9K followers, XXX engagements


"The economist Albert Hirschman described this exact pattern in "Exit Voice and Loyalty." If public schools don't retain some level of quality (which requires upholding standards and discipline) eventually the system will bifurcate into good private schools and bad public ones"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1977486021039116652) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-12T21:26Z 177.9K followers, 23K engagements


""The Sopranos did two different things. On the one hand it promoted the idea that therapy can be valuable especially to men.But if you pay attention to the story therapy actually makes Tony worse over time in terms of his moral compass""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1977548467963580805) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-13T01:34Z 177.9K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Every magician will tell you that they have had experiences where theyre performing for a group and there is somebody in that group who doesnt want to be fooled takes it as an affront.people who 'hate' magic shows tend to exhibit higher psychopathy""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1977565177546764794) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-13T02:40Z 177.9K followers, 27.7K engagements


"This is so funny. Starbucks should change their name to "Starcents." Whole Foods = Incomplete Foods. Bed Bath & Beyond = Bed Bath & Not Quite Beyond"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1976670903741382689) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-10T15:27Z 177.9K followers, 5951 engagements


"Today is the big day My debut book "Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care Family and Social Class" is now available in paperback. The Audiobook is narrated by yours truly. US: UK:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1886761799309029631) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-02-04T13:00Z 177.9K followers, 368.8K engagements


"Leadership and influence: Extraversion is the biggest predictor followed by Conscientiousness and Openness Career Success (performance promotions pay): Conscientiousness and Extraversion Psychological health: Strongly predicted by low Neuroticism and High Extraversion. Physical health + longevity: High Conscientiousness and low Neuroticism Relationships & Social Environment: Agreeableness and Emotional Stability predict good relationships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1967401271670809035) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-09-15T01:33Z 177.9K followers, 339.5K engagements


"A classic finding from behavioral economics games goes like this: You pair two people Alfred and Bob. Bob receives $XX and decides how much to offer Alfred. If Alfred accepts they both keep the money. If he rejects neither gets anything. In most cases Bob has to offer at least $X for Alfred to accept. If Bob offers less Alfred feels cheated; even though accepting $X would still leave him better off than nothing. Studies show that people usually reject offers below XX% of the total even if it means they receive nothing. But if you ask Alfred to play on behalf of a friend (so that his friend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978200915892211983) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-14T20:47Z 177.9K followers, 179.8K engagements


"My take on whats happening here:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978593535382478957) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-15T22:47Z 177.9K followers, 43.1K engagements


""People with strong left-wing authoritarian beliefs are less likely to support physically strong men as leaders.Both men and women with higher left-wing authoritarian beliefs tended to reject physically strong men as potential leaders.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978872501183877574) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-16T17:15Z 177.9K followers, 11.6K engagements


"The fertility crisis is really a marriage crisis (fertility among married couples holds steady). The luxury belief class has so successfully stigmatized discussions of marriage that people speak about the fertility crisis while skirting the topic of cratering marriage rates"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1978906663672262756) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-16T19:31Z 177.9K followers, 22.3K engagements


"Accurate. The vast majority of poor people are not criminals. Rather criminals (because they are generally dumb and lack impulse control) tend to slide into poverty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979045041520738746) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-17T04:41Z 177.9K followers, 247.4K engagements


"You dont lose yourself in the same way with a 15-second social media reels as you do with a 300-page book. Reading a book means stepping into someone elses mind and walking beside them for hoursits immersive in a way short-form content cant match. Even movies which used to be the middle ground now require too much focus for many people. Sitting through a two-hour film demands attention and patience that younger audiences increasingly find difficult to muster. Its ironic though because reading or watching something long-form is like going to the gym for your mind. Even if you only read a few"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979624071223714299) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-18T19:02Z 177.9K followers, 13.5K engagements


"Zohran Mamdani's Luxury Beliefs:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979672905316499705) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-18T22:16Z 177.9K followers, 6999 engagements


"Women who self-identify as feminists tend to show much stronger preferences for premium beauty products compared with non-feminist women. The practical purposeand effectof these investments is to help elite women stand out relative to their female rivals. I learned about this in the excellent book Weve Never Been Woke by Musa al-Gharbi. He points out that theres a clear relationship between higher levels of education and the likelihood of self-identifying as a feminist among women. But as women climb the educational ladder the pool of men they consider desirable gets smaller. So you end up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1979960875441418543) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T17:20Z 177.9K followers, 54.1K engagements


"Realizing for a lot of people their mental image of old people is about one generation out of date. Huge difference between people born in the 1930s (most are dead) and people born in 1950s (old people today). A childhood in the 1930s encompassed the great depression and war becoming an adult in the conformist 1950s. Someone born in 1950 was born into relative prosperity and when they came of age they dodged the draft and saw the rise of the counter culture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980031573044187518) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-19T22:01Z 177.9K followers, 58K engagements


""Because their ideology has failed consistently in the past socialists have perfected the art of assigning blame. Even in a scarcity economy they can produce an endless supply of scapegoats.Of course that can only mean the Jews.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1980128850513457432) [@robkhenderson](/creator/x/robkhenderson) 2025-10-20T04:28Z 177.9K followers, 6850 engagements