The colleague who nods along in the meeting and complains in the corridor. The voter who defends something he would never accept from a neighbour. The friend who says yes and means no. Each of them has a reason ready, and each reason is a little too tidy.
That tidy version interests me less than what sits under it. Almost everything I make starts there: watching people, myself included, do something and then reach for a better-sounding explanation. I want the actual mechanism. Sometimes it is psychology, sometimes it is politics, and often it is both.
Tells is where I write it up. The YouTube channel is where I tell the story out loud. The projects below take the same question into introversion, faith and power, and a podcast that roasts the rest.
