About The Human Catalogue

The Human Catalogue is a collection of observations about people.

Human beings are strange, predictable, contradictory, irrational, generous, selfish, ambitious, insecure, tribal, curious, and endlessly interesting. Most of what happens in the world—business, politics, relationships, culture, money, status, religion, technology, education—eventually comes back to human behavior.

That makes humanity a sufficiently large subject.

The essays here begin with things I notice: patterns in the way people behave, assumptions we rarely question, contradictions we accept without noticing, and ideas that occur to me while trying to make sense of why we do what we do.

There is no fixed category and no predetermined subject matter. One piece may be about status, another about friendship, another about work, money, travel, technology, institutions, or something completely ordinary. The common subject is always the same: us.

These are not intended to be final answers. They are observations, arguments, questions, and attempts to understand the species from inside it.

The Human Catalogue is simply a place to record them.

Observations on the species.