Archive - 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 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

March 2024

The road to an R01

...and whether K awards help you get there

Mar 22, 2024 •

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.

Mar 15, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

Policy should be adaptive

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

Mar 8, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

Seeing like a system

A review of John Gall's "Systemantics"

Mar 1, 2024 •

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…

Feb 12, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

How I manage information

Fighting back entropy one highlight at a time

Feb 6, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

January 2024

What is status?

Defining status through the lens of cultural evolution

Jan 29, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

The weight of history on diagnosis

Thoughts on nosology's impact on AI and human enhancement

Jan 10, 2024 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

November 2023

Links for Fall 2023

Welcome to the inaugural link post for Perambulations. I’m not very active on other social media, and my love language is sending links, so I thought…

Nov 20, 2023 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

October 2023

Welcome to the Unmasquerade

On mental health, identity, and knowing what we want

Oct 17, 2023 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

September 2023

Self-help is prompt engineering the unconscious

Prompts are the weirdest part about LLMs.

Sep 12, 2023 •

Nathaniel Hendrix

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