Mark Fabian
@markfabian.bsky.social
Ass-Prof of Public Policy at Warwick. Work mostly on wellbeing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Interested in *everything*. Run ePODstemology: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/episodes
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Mark Fabian
@markfabian.bsky.social
· Feb 26
Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment
YouTube video by M. Fabian Education
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Friends, foes, family:
I have a popular booking coming out on April 10 - Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment. It's the book I wish existed when I was 18. I couldn't find it in 20 years of searching, so I went and wrote it.
A video brief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPZ...
I have a popular booking coming out on April 10 - Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment. It's the book I wish existed when I was 18. I couldn't find it in 20 years of searching, so I went and wrote it.
A video brief:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XPZ...
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The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
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and it's a feature, not a bug, of whatever mangled faction this is that is running Labour. these people are able to do one thing and one thing alone - fight factional wars against the left.
they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.
they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.
November 17, 2025 at 9:21 AM
and it's a feature, not a bug, of whatever mangled faction this is that is running Labour. these people are able to do one thing and one thing alone - fight factional wars against the left.
they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.
they're absolutely shit at literally anything else.
The left's unelectability is less a function of centrism brain and more a function of trotting out the same compromised septuagenarians over and over. At least give us new "centrists", clean ones. Summers has been shit for aaaaaaaages. There are good fresh thinkers everywhere. Give them oxygen.
NEW: Before the recent Epstein disclosures, Larry Summers was poised to lead the economic policy plank for the Democrats' "Project 2029" effort at the Center for American Progress. He signed off on a housing policy paper CAP was prepping for next week.
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding Democrats’ ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The left's unelectability is less a function of centrism brain and more a function of trotting out the same compromised septuagenarians over and over. At least give us new "centrists", clean ones. Summers has been shit for aaaaaaaages. There are good fresh thinkers everywhere. Give them oxygen.
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This is a great short article about a #SocialCare movement that was “born of frustration but driven by hope”
For fellow movement builders & shakers @socialcarefuture.bsky.social has shared this today - learning and reflections on several years of trying to shift a system to be more human sized and shaped thru growing narrative, people & relational power. Hope helpful socialcarefuture.org.uk/noticeboard/...
Moving beyond a hashtag: how #SocialCareFuture is pushing for real change - Social Care Future
What impact has the #SocialCareFuture movement had? Today we are sharing an independent impact report as the first step in shaping our next steps together.
socialcarefuture.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This is a great short article about a #SocialCare movement that was “born of frustration but driven by hope”
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Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3
and a worker tier whose emails are like:
Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…
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He's already earning £159k per year from his salary for the job he was (narrowly) elected to do. That's more than five times what I earn. I think if I was earning that sort of money I wouldn't need to abandon everything good and right for an extra chunk of money from cunts.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
He's already earning £159k per year from his salary for the job he was (narrowly) elected to do. That's more than five times what I earn. I think if I was earning that sort of money I wouldn't need to abandon everything good and right for an extra chunk of money from cunts.
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The story of Jesus driving the moneylenders out of the temple is such a slay and that’s before you realise he braided his own whip
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The story of Jesus driving the moneylenders out of the temple is such a slay and that’s before you realise he braided his own whip
I'm giving a seminar tomorrow (my first!) on my popular book Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment.
It's with the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, register here:
isqols.org/event-6357161
Unlike a podcast, here you can ask me questions!
It's with the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, register here:
isqols.org/event-6357161
Unlike a podcast, here you can ask me questions!
November 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I'm giving a seminar tomorrow (my first!) on my popular book Beyond Happy: How to rethink happiness and find fulfilment.
It's with the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, register here:
isqols.org/event-6357161
Unlike a podcast, here you can ask me questions!
It's with the International Society for Quality of Life Studies, register here:
isqols.org/event-6357161
Unlike a podcast, here you can ask me questions!
Can someone explain to me why UK university students are so obsessed with the *titles* of their assessments/essays? Not the task/question, the title. Is this drilled into them in high school or something? Every year I get students asking me for guidance about which pun is better etc.
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Can someone explain to me why UK university students are so obsessed with the *titles* of their assessments/essays? Not the task/question, the title. Is this drilled into them in high school or something? Every year I get students asking me for guidance about which pun is better etc.
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Thus, it becomes ever harder for public institutions to be 'impartial', when the gap between different realities and 'alternative facts' have become so large. A huge threat to our societies and democracies.
November 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Thus, it becomes ever harder for public institutions to be 'impartial', when the gap between different realities and 'alternative facts' have become so large. A huge threat to our societies and democracies.
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Whenever I get a little bit of time off I always tell myself to use it napping and I always end up blogging instead:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Whenever I get a little bit of time off I always tell myself to use it napping and I always end up blogging instead:
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
open.substack.com/pub/profmark...?
New episode of ePODstemology with Harvard's James Geary on aphorisms!
www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
T;DR Truth Bombs - The Essence of Aphorisms with James Geary - ePODstemology
In one of his Letters Provinciales, the French philosopher and Theologian Blaise Pascal apologises that “I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had the time to make it shorter”. ...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
New episode of ePODstemology with Harvard's James Geary on aphorisms!
www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1763534/epis...
In today's episode of AI can't predict shit, my Netflix suggestions:
Did you watch Oscar winning mythologist Miyazaki's solarpunk masterpiece, Castle in the Sky?
Well our algorithm thinks you'll love...K-Pop Demon Hunters 😑. It's all anime, right?
It is so bad at discovering stuff for me.
Did you watch Oscar winning mythologist Miyazaki's solarpunk masterpiece, Castle in the Sky?
Well our algorithm thinks you'll love...K-Pop Demon Hunters 😑. It's all anime, right?
It is so bad at discovering stuff for me.
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
In today's episode of AI can't predict shit, my Netflix suggestions:
Did you watch Oscar winning mythologist Miyazaki's solarpunk masterpiece, Castle in the Sky?
Well our algorithm thinks you'll love...K-Pop Demon Hunters 😑. It's all anime, right?
It is so bad at discovering stuff for me.
Did you watch Oscar winning mythologist Miyazaki's solarpunk masterpiece, Castle in the Sky?
Well our algorithm thinks you'll love...K-Pop Demon Hunters 😑. It's all anime, right?
It is so bad at discovering stuff for me.
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What is the true vow of your life—the one it would kill you to break?
How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?
accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...
#Accidentalgods #podcast
How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?
accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...
#Accidentalgods #podcast
Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin
What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest,...
accidentalgods.life
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What is the true vow of your life—the one it would kill you to break?
How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?
accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...
#Accidentalgods #podcast
How do we discover what we are here for, what is our unique gift to the world, and how can we bring this to the table in ways that will transform our broken systems?
accidentalgods.life/walking-the-...
#Accidentalgods #podcast
Randomly looking at Milo's wiki & saw these doozies:
"2022, Yiannopoulos served as an intern for US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, later working with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and rapper Kanye West on [his] short-lived 2024 US presidential campaign."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yi...
"2022, Yiannopoulos served as an intern for US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, later working with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and rapper Kanye West on [his] short-lived 2024 US presidential campaign."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yi...
Milo Yiannopoulos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Randomly looking at Milo's wiki & saw these doozies:
"2022, Yiannopoulos served as an intern for US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, later working with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and rapper Kanye West on [his] short-lived 2024 US presidential campaign."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yi...
"2022, Yiannopoulos served as an intern for US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, later working with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and rapper Kanye West on [his] short-lived 2024 US presidential campaign."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yi...
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this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
This by Geoff Mulgan seems on point as usual:
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
"I open the broader question of whether progressive movements can thrive without an idea of progress"
It is very puzzling to me that centre-left parties are not embracing wellbeing economy ideas in this regard.
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
"I open the broader question of whether progressive movements can thrive without an idea of progress"
It is very puzzling to me that centre-left parties are not embracing wellbeing economy ideas in this regard.
Hollowed out: can the centre hold?
Can the centre hold and resist the far right?
geoffmulgan.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This by Geoff Mulgan seems on point as usual:
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
"I open the broader question of whether progressive movements can thrive without an idea of progress"
It is very puzzling to me that centre-left parties are not embracing wellbeing economy ideas in this regard.
geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/hollowed-o...
"I open the broader question of whether progressive movements can thrive without an idea of progress"
It is very puzzling to me that centre-left parties are not embracing wellbeing economy ideas in this regard.
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If you can’t articulate the other side’s point of view during an argument or debate, then you haven’t eliminated the possibility that what you have is actually a miscommunication not a conflict.
November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
If you can’t articulate the other side’s point of view during an argument or debate, then you haven’t eliminated the possibility that what you have is actually a miscommunication not a conflict.
@economeager.bsky.social I just tag you whenever Freud is vindicated.
for the *second time* i have applied to my own alma mater, with a cover letter that says i am applying for a job at a different university. freud vindicated yet again
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@economeager.bsky.social I just tag you whenever Freud is vindicated.
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u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman
these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth
November 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
u shaped AND inverse u shaped!!!!! holy regional heterogeneity batman
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We need to hear more young voices in our culture and democracy. And this one on the appeal of the manosphere and why we might be letting young boys down is powerful.
Male body image and its associations is a massive driver of the Tate etc enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Male body image and its associations is a massive driver of the Tate etc enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m a teenager who was lured into the manosphere. Here’s how to reach young men like me | Josh Sargent
Masculinity is almost always presented as toxic on my feed – but we need constructive alternatives to give hope to those who feel lost, says Josh Sargent
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We need to hear more young voices in our culture and democracy. And this one on the appeal of the manosphere and why we might be letting young boys down is powerful.
Male body image and its associations is a massive driver of the Tate etc enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Male body image and its associations is a massive driver of the Tate etc enterprise.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew this book would depress me but my god it is soooo depressing.
I dont understand what people think happens to their trash. In the bin out of mind I guess. But actually all that plastic is now in your food, water, beaches, brain. All so Shein can thrive.
I dont understand what people think happens to their trash. In the bin out of mind I guess. But actually all that plastic is now in your food, water, beaches, brain. All so Shein can thrive.
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I knew this book would depress me but my god it is soooo depressing.
I dont understand what people think happens to their trash. In the bin out of mind I guess. But actually all that plastic is now in your food, water, beaches, brain. All so Shein can thrive.
I dont understand what people think happens to their trash. In the bin out of mind I guess. But actually all that plastic is now in your food, water, beaches, brain. All so Shein can thrive.
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It totally makes sense to me that giving prestige to those who demonstrate not only fitness but focus and control could help sustain a society.
If so, AI surrogated skills don't just challenge social cohesion via wages, but also via challenging our capacity to recognise & reward social investment.
If so, AI surrogated skills don't just challenge social cohesion via wages, but also via challenging our capacity to recognise & reward social investment.
November 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It totally makes sense to me that giving prestige to those who demonstrate not only fitness but focus and control could help sustain a society.
If so, AI surrogated skills don't just challenge social cohesion via wages, but also via challenging our capacity to recognise & reward social investment.
If so, AI surrogated skills don't just challenge social cohesion via wages, but also via challenging our capacity to recognise & reward social investment.