Today I'm talking about something that's been on my mind as I've been writing Love Quotient: the two feedback loops that quietly corrode almost every relationship we have. I explain how our dominant cognitive function becomes our personal "channel" for expressing and receiving love, and why a mismatch with the people we care about can spiral into the exact same withdrawal on both sides, until the relationship falls apart.

From there I dive into Pride and Prejudice, using what I know about personality and temperament to offer a fresh, more sympathetic read on Mr. Bennett and the entailment that hangs over the Bennet family. I also share a personal story about my border collies that mirrors his situation surprisingly well. Then I take a hard turn into artificial intelligence, walking through how I used "vibe coding" to build a free tool that helps you read the world's great literature, in the original Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic, with computer-assisted definitions built right in.

In this episode you will learn:

(00:00) Why our relationships are being steadily corroded by two feedback loops we rarely notice

(02:27) How our dominant cognitive function becomes our personal channel for expressing and receiving love

(05:15) What entailment meant for the Bennet family and why it set the entire plot of Pride and Prejudice in motion

(08:22) Why Mrs. Bennett was so openly focused on marrying off her daughters to rich men

(11:57) How "goodness of fit" and temperament theory give us a more sympathetic read on Mr. Bennett's parenting

(15:32) What my border collies taught me about Mr. Bennett's distance from his younger daughters

(18:45) Why artificial intelligence is simultaneously overhyped and underhyped right now

(18:45) How human and machine intelligence complement each other when it comes to parsing language

(22:01) How I used "vibe coding" to build a reading tool from scratch in a single day

(24:45) What's inside the Andrew Winkler Reading Room, from the Septuagint to Shakespeare to Ulysses

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Read, with computer assistance, the best literature the world has ever produced

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Love Quotient: Stop Dying of Thirst in an Ocean of Love Kickstarter

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