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  • 2 weeks ago | mariakonnikova.substack.com | Maria Konnikova

    I lied to you: I said I would write about sleep this week. And I promise, I was going to. But there was an element of my time in Monte Carlo that kept eating away at me, and even though I tried my best to resist the urge to add my voice to a chorus that had already spoken about it, I couldn’t quite do it. I’m working on a book about cheating, after all; and when I see cheating-adjacent behavior, it grabs me and won’t let go.

  • 3 weeks ago | mariakonnikova.substack.com | Maria Konnikova

    Greetings from the air! I apologize for the long delay in posts: I’ve been at the PokerStars flagship EPT Monte Carlo series—which means days filled with little other than poker, sleep, and attempts at sanity-maintenance like morning yoga and sunshine. I did actually try to write something the day I arrived, off a red-eye flight from New York. Luckily for me, I did not publish it.

  • 1 month ago | mariakonnikova.substack.com | Maria Konnikova

    This weekend, my family convened from various parts of New England to celebrate my birthday, with my parents battling heroically to drive through six and a half hours of Good Friday traffic just to spend a day with us. It was wonderful and happy—but it did make me reflect on the oddity of celebrating someone for the one thing that they had zero control over, the ultimate example of sheer, dumb luck: the accident of birth.

  • 1 month ago | mariakonnikova.substack.com | Maria Konnikova

    I love eating alone. There’s something beautifully freeing about the lack of obligation to anything (or anyone), beyond the momentary experience. Food is one of the most grounding sensory pleasures we have—smell, sight, sound, touch, taste all there for the taking—and when I eat by myself, I can focus on every single element of the meal, without distraction. It’s one of the most Zen rituals I can imagine, where being present and in-the-moment pays dividends.

  • 2 months ago | mariakonnikova.substack.com | Maria Konnikova

    I hate April Fools’ Day. Always have. Why have a day when you spend the entire time worrying that someone is going to try to prank you—or triple-checking that the story or headline you just read is real? I’m all for jokes and pranks, but I like them to come about organically, not because some random calendar date says so. That said, the origin of the holiday is quite fascinating—and history, I do love.

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Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova
22 May 25

How motivated reasoning led to some disastrous decisions in the Biden camp - and in Silicon Valley. And should we believe the NBA conspiracy theories?? @NateSilver538 and I discuss on the latest Risky Business pod. https://t.co/W5b09pKkJL

Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova
21 May 25

Shoutout to the woman on my flight whose carry-on was a giant bag of Dominique Ansel pastries. Living her best life and I’m here for it 💕💕💕

Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova @mkonnikova
19 May 25

RT @PokerStarsUSA: The 2025 NAPT is coming to @PokerRoomRWLV in November. As well as the Main Event, major tournaments include: 💥 $200,00…