Chris Williamson

Host of the Modern Wisdom podcast

On the podcast

In their own words

“Beauty increases with age, it's timeless, hotness wanes with age... there is a window of time within which you can utilize your looks, especially within certain pathways. Like they're not putting 45 year olds onto love island.”January 2021, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“Once you've broken even everything is profit. So there is no variable cost... you go downstairs and pay for the drink yourself.”January 2021, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems... think about how many women have had fewer children than they wanted to because they were told that they had to have a career when they were younger.”January 2021, on the Vance Crowe Podcast, on the Vance Crowe Podcast

If you valued this conversation

• Rob Henderson — recorded a week earlier and referenced in this conversation; his premarital-partner-count research on infidelity comes up directly in the Williamson episode
• Malcolm Collins — on fertility, tradition, and status-driven cultural change, a similar terrain to Williamson's tradition/meaning discussion
• Simone Collins — on dating markets, social status signaling, and mating dynamics, complementing Williamson's take on dominance hierarchies

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