Perambulations

There is a world within the world

A joint review of Don Delillo's "Libra" and Wendy S. Painting's "Aberration in the Heartland of the Real"

Jun 17, 2024 • 

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March 2024

The road to an R01

...and whether K awards help you get there

Mar 22, 2024 • 

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What's the effect of age on physician ability?

Note: This topic intersects a little with my day job, so it’s a good time to remind you that the opinions here are mine alone.

Mar 15, 2024 • 

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Policy should be adaptive

Allowing automatic updates to policy implementation can nudge us towards better equilibria

Mar 8, 2024 • 

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Seeing like a system

A review of John Gall's "Systemantics"

Mar 1, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Links for Winter 2024

🔭 Large teams develop and small teams disrupt science and technology : The authors use an enormous dataset of academic articles to discover that team…

Feb 12, 2024 • 

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How I manage information

Fighting back entropy one highlight at a time

Feb 6, 2024 • 

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January 2024

What is status?

Defining status through the lens of cultural evolution

Jan 29, 2024 • 

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The weight of history on diagnosis

Thoughts on nosology's impact on AI and human enhancement

Jan 10, 2024 • 

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November 2023

October 2023

Welcome to the Unmasquerade

On mental health, identity, and knowing what we want

Oct 17, 2023 • 

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September 2023

Self-help is prompt engineering the unconscious

Prompts are the weirdest part about LLMs.

Sep 12, 2023 • 

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