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The road to an R01
...and whether K awards help you get there
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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. The wealthy world’s…
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Nathaniel Hendrix
Policy should be adaptive
Allowing automatic updates to policy implementation can nudge us towards better equilibria
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Nathaniel Hendrix
Seeing like a system
A review of John Gall's "Systemantics"
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Nathaniel Hendrix

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…
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Nathaniel Hendrix
How I manage information
Fighting back entropy one highlight at a time
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January 2024

What is status?
Defining status through the lens of cultural evolution
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Nathaniel Hendrix
The weight of history on diagnosis
Thoughts on nosology's impact on AI and human enhancement
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Nathaniel Hendrix

November 2023

October 2023

Welcome to the Unmasquerade
On mental health, identity, and knowing what we want
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Nathaniel Hendrix

September 2023

Self-help is prompt engineering the unconscious
Prompts are the weirdest part about LLMs. We usually instruct computers in unambiguous programming languages, but prompting injects irrationality into…
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Butler, Bros, and Beyond
Constructing a positive vision of masculinity with sci-fi
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Nathaniel Hendrix
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