Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Underneath the anger of anxious attachment is unresolved grief about not having been responded to.

  Attachment theory

  Their words

  Underneath anger is sadness over all your cumulative experiences in life of not being responded to, past and present. The sadness around powerlessness. Unresolved grief.

  juliemenanno.substack.com

Author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts and of Bittersweet; writes The Quiet Life newsletter.

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  Sacred Therapy: Jewish Spiritual Teachings on Emotional Healing and Inner Wholeness

  Their words

  This book is so full of wisdom and insight. I pulled down my copy just now and it's filled with underlines and margin notes.

  susancain.substack.com

Staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes the Infinite Scroll column, and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.

  Their words

  Another conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.

  Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com

Researcher on developer productivity; co-wrote Accelerate and the DORA research, and created the SPACE framework.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Working too hard is not burnout, it is tiredness; burnout needs your values to be out of alignment with the work.

  AI alignment

  Their words

  It's working too hard, right? But that actually isn't burnout. That's just like getting tired. Another piece that's super critical to burnout is not having your values aligned.

  youtube.com

Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A passing test suite is not evidence that the software works, so an agent must also be made to start the thing and exercise it the way a person would.

  Their words

  just cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.

  youtube.com

Indian software engineer working on Android and React; writes about his setup and side projects at ishubhamsingh.dev.

• Likedrcmnd.app

  Apple Watch Series 6

  Their words

  Perfect iPhone companion, use it for sleep & fitness tracking

  ishubhamsingh.dev

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.

  Their words

  My brain feels stronger because I work through the problem instead of prompting it away.

  Offline 23 hours a daysive.rs

Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

From one piece Clinical Reflections on the Critique on Polyvagal Theory proposed by Grossman et al., (2026) 2 beliefs · drarielleschwartz.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.

  Polyvagal theory

  Their words

  Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.

  drarielleschwartz.com

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  Polyvagal theory survives the 2026 "untenable" critique: what the critics contested was mechanism and evolutionary framing, not the clinical proposition.

  Polyvagal theory

  Their words

  The central clinical proposition of polyvagal theory-that autonomic state functions as an organizing platform shaping perception, emotion, and relational behavior-was not empirically disproven in the critique.

  drarielleschwartz.com

Genomics researcher and writer on science, biotech and the culture of research.

From one piece A response to Dario Amodei on AI & clinical trials 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  How long a trial takes decides which diseases get drugs at all, because capital flows to the indications whose endpoints can be measured quickly.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Lastly, the duration of a clinical trial does not merely determine how fast an individual therapy reaches patients. It also shapes which diseases attract serious investment and which do not.

  writingruxandrabio.com

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  A clinical trial is not only a test of a drug: early trials are experiments whose real product is the human biology data everything downstream is built on.

  Their words

  Trials serve two distinct functions: validation — confirming whether a drug works and is safe — and learning, or generating biological data to refine our understanding of a disease, a compound, and the relationship between the two.

  writingruxandrabio.com

American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Social media in its current form harms people of all ages; the line is drawn at childhood only because adults are allowed to choose things that are bad for them.

  Addiction

  Their words

  Like any addictive consumer product that routinely exposes users to graphic sex, extreme violence, and anonymous sexual predators, social media in its current form causes a variety of harms to people of all ages. But we allow adults (often defined as age 18) to make decisions that are bad for them.

  afterbabel.com

Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Burnout is not working too much; what ground him down at his company was people: co-founder conflict and high-stress customers.

  Their words

  The stuff that burned me out was mostly people stuff. I, I don't think burnout is working too much. Maybe to a degree. Everybody's different.

  youtube.com

Co-founder and CEO of Until, a reversible-cryopreservation company, and previously the founder of the Longevity Fund.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Transplant patients regularly lose organs that are already on their way to them, purely because of timing.

  Their words

  basically transplant patients today surprisingly frequently miss organs that are on route to them because there's a timing problem. Um, so like you know, organs expire um very quickly after they become available from a donor.

  youtube.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

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  Outcome Rating Scale (ORS)

  Their words

  The ORS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess areas of life functioning known to change as a result of therapeutic intervention. It takes less than one minute to complete and score.

  scottdmiller.com

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  Session Rating Scale (SRS)

  Their words

  The SRS is a brief, 4-item measure designed to assess the therapeutic alliance. It provides immediate feedback on the quality of the relationship and allows for course correction in real time.

  scottdmiller.com

Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

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  Manta Sleep eye mask

  Their words

  For travel, Manta Sleep eye mask — they have hot and cold versions which I love.

  jxnl.co

Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

From one piece Bryan's Protocol 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Sleep is the highest-return health behaviour there is, and everything else — exercise, diet, self-control — rests on it.

  Their words

  Sleep – high quality sleep is the world’s #1 longevity drug.

  Bryan's Protocolprotocol.bryanjohnson.com

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  Six hours of exercise a week, split between strength, cardio, flexibility and balance, is the right dose for a healthy adult.

  Their words

  Exercise – 6 hours a week is ideal.

  Bryan's Protocolprotocol.bryanjohnson.com

Entrepreneur and founder of Blueprint. Publishes a detailed, freely available longevity protocol documenting the food, supplements, devices and measurements he uses on himself.

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  Eight Sleep

  Their words

  Consider using a noise machine to offset environmental sounds or earplugs if necessary. Temperature controlled mattresses such as Eight Sleep are great.

  protocol.bryanjohnson.com

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  f.lux

  Their words

  Use red and amber lights in the evening . Bluelight is bad for sleep. You can get blue light blocking apps (f.lux), glasses and also turn red mode on your phone.

  protocol.bryanjohnson.com

Organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. Author of Give and Take, Originals, Think Again and Hidden Potential, host of the Re:Thinking podcast, and writer of the GRANTED newsletter.

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  The Balancing Act

  Their words

  The Balancing Act by therapist Nedra Tawwab (February)

  adamgrant.substack.com

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It

  Their words

  can lead to imposter phenomenon. In this book, a leading psychologist looks at the science behind our inner voice and new research into how to harness it and improve your physical and mental health.

  bringthedonuts.com

Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.

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  Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

  Their words

  Best books I read in 2025: Just a note that these books weren’t all necessarily published this year (though some were). A Story is a Deal: How to use the science of story to motivate and persuade by Will Storr Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics by Paul Turke Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

  robkhenderson.com

Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  1929

  Their words

  1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin The reverberations from the Great Depression are still being felt 100 years later so I loved learning more about the characters involved in that fateful time.

  awealthofcommonsense.com

Vice chairman of Ogilvy & Mather Group, the advertising agency; author of Alchemy (2019) and the Wiki Man columnist at The Spectator.

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  Cutting a job defined by its narrowest function destroys the tacit value that job was quietly creating.

  Their words

  the dorman was doing multiple things, many of which were human and kind of tacit. Security would be one. You know, there are no vagrants to sleep in the doorway, hailing taxis, dealing with luggage, recognizing regular guests, providing status to the hotel. There are loads and loads of value creation components to that dorman which aren't captured in the open the door definition.

  youtube.com

Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.

• Lovedaffiliate linkrcmnd.app

  Pimsleur

  Their words

  For language acquisition, Pimsleur is by far my favorite online/app program. (Even Mr. Mari, who gathers no joy from learning languages, was addicted to it for a while!)

  mariandrew.substack.com

Co-founder and chief scientist of Safe Superintelligence Inc., and previously co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The human value function is extraordinarily robust — addiction aside — which is why a person can judge their own performance at a skill they have only just started.

  Addiction

  Their words

  They have a general sense which is also by the way extremely robust in people like whatever it is the human value function whatever the human value function is with a few exceptions around addiction it's actually very very robust

  youtube.com

China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Manufacturing subsidies that push output and capacity above natural levels can depress prices enough to shrink manufacturing's share of GDP.

  China

  Their words

  There's even a case to be made that those policies actually depressed the manufacturing share of GDP: by boosting output and capacity above where they would have been otherwise, subsidies probably contributed to the sustained decline in prices for China's manufactured goods over the past few years, weighing on their share of nominal output.

  China bows to de-industrializationandrewbatson.com

Author of The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans, and host of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

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  Manukora

  Their words

  I love this smooth and creamy Mānuka honey, and I use it before bed to help with sleep.

  tim.blog

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  The Way

  Their words

  Using the app for just 10–20 minutes a day has reduced my anxiety more than I would have thought possible with any app.

  tim.blog

• Usessponsoredrcmnd.app

  Eight Sleep Pod 5 Ultra

  Their words

  Several years ago, I started using the Pod Cover for cooling and heating while I sleep, and it has transformed my sleep quality.

  tim.blog

Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Solving a problem yourself, without searching or prompting, is a form of exercise -- the help makes you weaker.

  Their words

  Learning requires an investment of effort, and AI will make us stupider if that effort is avoided.

  Will AI Make Us Stupid?scotthyoung.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Language models have no equivalent of sleep: nothing takes the day's context, thinks it over, and distils it back into the weights.

  Their words

  These models don't really have this distillation phase um of taking what happened, analyzing it, obsessively thinking through it, um basically doing some kind of a synthetic data generation process and distilling it back back into the weights

  youtube.com

Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A company can treat AI as a way to grow and do more or as a cost-cutting exercise, and the growth reading is the better one.

  Their words

  you can either see AI as an opportunity for your company to grow and do more or you can look at it as like cost cutting efficiency but I think the growth part is way more exciting.

  youtube.com

Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK.

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  The one muscle worth training is self-discipline; once that is trained, everything else follows by itself.

  Their words

  I think the main muscle you can exercise is this muscle, the muscle of self-discipline. Not your biceps or your pecs or anything else. Because if you get to train that one, everything else just comes by itself.

  youtube.com

German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Hitler went into opioid withdrawal in the bunker because British bombers had destroyed the Merck factory that made his drug.

  Addiction

  Their words

  One thing that changed was that Eukodal was not available anymore, so the drug that Hitler actually had become physically addicted to was suddenly not available anymore. This had to do with the bombardment of the Merck company, the factory in December 1944. British bombers destroyed the production facilities.

  youtube.com

Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

From one piece The Rumpelstiltskin effect: therapeutic repercussions of clinical diagnosis (with 1 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Self-diagnosis is an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention patients cannot officially access.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Likewise, self-diagnosis should be understood as an attempt to secure the therapeutic effect of a medical intervention to which patients do not have official access.

  doi.org

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  Diagnoses that have therapeutic effects are medical interventions and should be treated and researched as such.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  If a clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect, then, at least in some instances, diagnoses are medical interventions in themselves and ought to be treated and researched as such, with an eye to both positive effects and potential iatrogenic harms.

  doi.org

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  Clinical diagnosis can have a therapeutic effect independent of any other intervention.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Their experiences highlight a striking, neglected and unchristened medical phenomenon: The therapeutic effect of a clinical diagnosis, independent of any other intervention, where clinical diagnosis refers to situating the person's experiences into a clinical category by a clinician or the patient.

  doi.org

Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Turning expertise into a commodity is democratising, because access to medical, legal and mental-health advice has always tracked wealth.

  Their words

  I just think about like really simple things like access to mental health care, access to education, access to medical advice, access to legal advice. We're essentially taking expertise and making it a commodity. And I think that will is generally democratizing.

  youtube.com

Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Who gains from a poor country’s growth is a question of political economy and geopolitics, never a purely technical one.

  Their words

  Poverty reduction is never a purely technocratic exercise, and questions about industrial policy can never be entirely divorced from those of political economy—including those of global geopolitics.

  Indonesia Climbs the Chainglobal-developments.org

Fellow at the Manhattan Institute writing on crime, drugs and policing; writes The Causal Fallacy.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Drug enforcement cut casual use and barely touched heavy users, who account for most of the drugs consumed.

  Addiction

  Their words

  But by the available evidence, the War on Drugs was far less successful at reducing use among the “hard core” of users, mostly meaning people addicted to their drug of choice.

  What Was The War on Drugs? Part Vthecausalfallacy.substack.com

Psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University. Writes Psychiatry at the Margins on the philosophical and scientific arguments inside psychiatry and the psy-sciences.

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  How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning

  Their words

  Recently I reviewed Adrian Kind’s 2025 book, “How Does the Psychiatrist Know?: On the Epistemology of Psychiatric Diagnostic Reasoning,” on this substack. I had mentioned that Kind’s book is the first systematic, in-depth, book-length philosophical investigation into how psychiatrists arrive at their diagnostic conclusions.

  psychiatrymargins.com

American open-source program lead working on WordPress; a WordPress core contributor and release lead who writes at jeffpaul.com.

• Usesrcmnd.app

  Oura Ring Gen 4

  Their words

  Oura Ring Gen 4 — for fitness and sleep tracking.

  jeffpaul.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Whoop

  Their words

  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

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  Oura

  Their words

  Summarizing all of that into my advice right now: Get Whoop for 9.5/10, reliable, convenient sleep tracking with an excellent app (once you get to know it a bit). Get Oura for 10/10 tracking, if you're ok with the ring form factor.

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

• Mixed onrcmnd.app

  8Sleep Pod 4 Ultra

  Their words

  I didn't find 8Sleep to be very reliable in its sleep tracking. The scores don't make as much sense to me when I wake up, and as we saw above they don't correlate very strongly with Whoop or Oura.

  karpathy.bearblog.dev

Programmer and streamer; was an engineer at Netflix, now teaches and argues about editors, Vim and how people learn to program.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  An addiction is not ended by finding something better to put in its place; you do not stop a problem by replacing it.

  Addiction

  Their words

  You don't stop a problem by replacing it. And so I didn't have a girlfriend, I didn't have all that. I just realized that I was truly taking away from something from my future wife.

  youtube.com

Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

From one piece Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, Economics, Capitalism, Freedom | Lex Fridman Podcast #457 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Friedman and Schwartz's account of the Great Depression became the Federal Reserve's permanent playbook, because no Fed chair wants to be the villain of the sequel.

  interest rates

  Their words

  Friedman and Schwartz becomes the playbook for the Federal Reserve. We have lived through this, the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve is ready to loan. Covid, the Federal Reserve does all kinds of new things, because no Federal Reserve chair wants to be in Friedman-Schwartz 2.0 that somebody writes, where they're the bad guy who let the economy meltdown.

  youtube.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The Chicago School's radical Depression-era proposals were meant as emergency measures, never as a permanent renegotiation of the line between state and market.

  Their words

  What is important to note though is that they thought of all of those as emergency measures to get through the emergency not as permanent alterations in the state of what had to be and not permanent alterations between state and market

  youtube.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A therapy is only shown to be more effective if it is compared against another treatment intended to help, not against a control nobody expected to work.

  EMDRPsychotherapyCBT

  Their words

  If one really wanted to know whether a treatment (e.g., CBT, IPT, ACT, EMDR) was more effective, it had to be directly compared to an approach intended to help - what Wampold and colleagues termed, a "bona fide" treatment. Doing otherwise, they argued, conflated artifacts of research design with actual research results.

  writings.scottdmiller.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Therapists overestimate their own effectiveness by about 65%, and it is not a Western cultural artifact.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Since 2012 when the first study appeared in the literature, others have been published documenting the tendency of practitioners to overestimate their effectiveness - on average, by 65% (1, 2).

  Alas, it seems everyone comes from Lake Wobegonwritings.scottdmiller.com

Game designer and director of the NYU Game Center; made Universal Paperclips and writes Donkeyspace.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Designed addiction in gambling games is real and can consume a person’s life.

  Addiction

  Their words

  The world is full of gambling games that want to crawl into your limbic system and drain every last ounce of life-force from your soul.

  Are Games Good?franklantz.substack.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

From one piece How to (and not to) become a more effective therapist 2 beliefs · writings.scottdmiller.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  What does make a therapist more effective is trainable interpersonal skill, not treatment technology.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  It turns out that therapists who perform well on the FIS establish stronger relationships and are more effective (2). More to the point, the evidence shows FIS-related skills are trainable and that such training leads to better results (3, 4, 5).

  writings.scottdmiller.com

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  Training a therapist in a treatment model does not make them more effective, however well the model performs in a trial.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Over the last 50 years, treatment methods have proliferated despite a lack of evidence of differential effectiveness between approaches. And even when a randomized controlled trial indicates a particular approach works, none show practitioners become more effective when they are trained in that modality.

  writings.scottdmiller.com

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The frontier of new physics is not high-energy particle physics or quantum gravity, but the problems of life and intelligence.

  energyTrauma

  Their words

  I think for me, the frontier in modern physics, where the new physics lies is not in high energy particle physics, it’s not in quantum gravity, it’s not in any of these sort of traditionally sold, “This is going to be the newest deepest insight we have into the nature of reality.” It is going to be in studying the problems of life and intelligence and the things that are sort of also our current existential crises as a civilization or a culture that’s going through an existential trauma of inventing technologies that we don’t understand right now.

  youtube.com

Founder of the International Center for Clinical Excellence and originator of Feedback-Informed Treatment. Writes about what actually makes a therapist effective, usually against the field's own assumptions about training and experience.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Therapists do not improve with experience: on average they become less effective, and their clients drop out more the longer they have practised.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Indeed, as I've reported in previous posts, research not only shows therapists do not improve with time and experience in the field, but on average become less effective (1, 2, 3, 4).

  writings.scottdmiller.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The human mind functions as an association-forming machine, linking past experiences to present beliefs.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  Exposure therapy works because the human mind is an association machine.

  How to Conquer Your Biggest Fearmarkmanson.net

Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Half of the ten largest companies in the world are in the business of making people's relationship with technology addictive.

  Addiction

  Their words

  If you look at the 10 largest companies in the world, half of them are trying to create this addictive relationship to technology.

  How to Break Free from Dopamine Culturehonest-broker.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A substantial share of people's personalities, dispositions, and dysfunctions is genetically driven rather than purely a product of environment or trauma.

  Trauma

  Their words

  But unfortunately, today, we know conclusively that it is simply not true. A great amount of people's personalities, dispositions, beliefs, and dysfunctions are genetically-driven.

  33 Powerful Books That Might Change Your Lifemarkmanson.net

Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Investing well requires reversing the human instinct to grow excited as prices rise and fearful as they fall.

  Their words

  People tend to get excited about investments when stocks are going up and they get depressed when they're going down. And I think that's just inherently human. You have to reverse that. You have to get excited when things get cheaper and you got to get concerned when things get more expensive.

  youtube.com

Music critic and historian; author of The History of Jazz and Music: A Subversive History. Writes the newsletter The Honest Broker on music and culture.

From one piece The State of the Culture, 2024 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The executives building addictive platforms know what the harm is and build them anyway.

  Addiction

  Their words

  The tech CEOs know this is harmful, but they do it anyway.

  The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Compulsive stimulation ends in anhedonia: the more a person leans on it the less pleasure it returns, until they use it only to avoid the pain of going without.

  Addiction

  Their words

  The more addicts rely on these stimuli, the less pleasure they receive. At a certain point, this cycle creates anhedonia—the complete absence of enjoyment in an experience supposedly pursued for pleasure.

  The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com

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  The technology platforms are not patrons of culture: their aim is addiction, because an addicted audience is the customer they want.

  Addiction

  Their words

  They don’t want to find the next Michelangelo or Mozart. They want to create a world of junkies—because they will be the dealers.

  The State of the Culture, 2024honest-broker.com

Writes Useful Fictions on agency and how to get better at things; a former appellate lawyer and the top-ranked woman in professional poker in 2017.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A drop in agency is the earliest sign of burnout, arriving before you consciously notice you are burning out.

  Their words

  Burnout is the ultimate agency-killer. This is so true that I’ve learned to identify a reduction in agency as one of the first signs of burnout, one that shows up even before I consciously realize what’s happening.

  How to be more agenticusefulfictions.substack.com

Marriage and family therapist working from attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy. Author of Secure Love and the person behind The Secure Relationship.

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  Attachment Style Quiz

  Their words

  Take the free Attachment Style Quiz and get personalised insight into how you connect, where your patterns come from, and your next step toward secure love.

  thesecurerelationship.com

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  Secure Love

  Their words

  Secure Love shows you how to understand your attachment style, calm conflict, and build the secure connection every relationship needs.

  thesecurerelationship.com

Writer on learning and skill acquisition; author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything, known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.

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  Cognitive Behavior Therapy

  Their words

  I recently reviewed Beck's book, which is written as a practical guide for therapists implementing CBT.

  scotthyoung.com

Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

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  Character is not fixed: therapy works because habitual neural pathways can re-form, sometimes within minutes.

  Psychotherapy

  Their words

  In my practice, I have seen that opening neural pathways can lead to profound change, to brand-new traits and behavior, sometimes in a matter of minutes.

  The Myth of the Individualterryreal.com

Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data and author of Just Keep Buying and The Wealth Ladder. Chief Operating Officer at Ritholtz Wealth Management.

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  The Great Depression: A Diary

  Their words

  This fantastic work is a primary source material to one of the darkest times in American economic history.

  ofdollarsanddata.com

Executive coach for product leaders. Previously a partner at GV (Google Ventures) and a product manager at Google. Writes at Bring the Donuts, including a standing essential-reading list for product managers.

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  Anxiety and worry arise from dwelling on an imagined future rather than the present moment.

  Their words

  Most of our fears begin to subside when we just allow ourselves to be in this moment, as anxiety and worry stem from a preoccupation with an anticipated or envisioned future.

  bringthedonuts.com

Family therapist and founder of Relational Life Therapy. Author of I Don't Want to Talk About It, How Can I Get Through to You? and Us; argues that Western individualism is what makes couples' work hard.

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  I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

  Their words

  In it, Terry reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse.

  terryreal.com

Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Heal Squad

  Their words

  I spoke with @mariamenounos about the link between emotions and illness, and the importance of focusing on mental health, on her Heal Squad podcast. To listen to the full episode, please follow: https://t.co/XPIKAvi8tH

  x.com

Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Daytime sleepiness is a normal state to live with rather than a signal to sleep more, so the right amount of sleep is the least you can sustain.

  Their words, before

  Experiencing sleepiness is normal and does not necessarily imply that you are undersleeping.

  Their words now

  Therefore, I realized that it’s very important to be as awake as possible and that my model of sleepiness where you can be “awake”, “sleepy” and “asleep” is dumb.

Co-founder and CEO of Every. Writes the Chain of Thought column about working with AI tools and hosts the podcast AI & I.

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  GPT-3

  Their words

  GPT-3 is really just an incredible therapist, and is able to uncover complex patterns in my thinking and distill clean narratives that helps me a lot.

  every.to

Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Burnout comes from not caring and from not feeling needed, not from working the hardest.

  Their words

  The times I have come closest to burnout or flaming out have never been when I was working the hardest, but when I cared the least.

  The Hierarchy Is Bullshit (And Bad For Business)charity.wtf

Writer on happiness, habits and human nature. Author of The Happiness Project, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies, and host of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast.

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  The Four Tendencies

  Their words

  Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so understanding this framework lets us make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress and burnout, and engage more effectively.

  gretchenrubin.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Somebody with trauma should try a trauma-focused therapy such as EMDR before treating their nightmares directly.

  EMDRPsychotherapyTrauma

  Their words

  I would recommend that anyone who thinks they're suffering from trauma (eg PTSD) try a trauma-focused therapy like EMDR before trying to address nightmares directly, unless the nightmares are overwhelmingly worse than all their other trauma symptoms.

  Peer Review: Nightmaresastralcodexten.com

Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  The evidence behind mainstream sleep advice is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts present it as being.

  Their words

  It appears that the evidence for all of these beliefs is much weaker than sleep scientists and public health experts want us to believe.

  Theses on Sleepguzey.com

Non-fiction writer, podcaster and occasional TV host. Author of thirteen books including The Ghost Map, Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, host of the PBS series How We Got To Now, and author of the Adjacent Possible newsletter on innovation.

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  Trust Exercise

  Their words

  But what really makes it brilliant is a kind of meta-fictional twist that happens in the middle of the book

  adjacentpossible.substack.com

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

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  Schema Therapy Online Community

  Their words

  This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.

  disarmingthenarcissist.com

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  Disarming the Narcissist

  Their words

  Now a self-help classic, Disarming the Narcissist is a practical, step-by-step communication guide to help you cope with and confront the narcissist in your life.

  disarmingthenarcissist.com

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  Schema Therapy Training Institute video series

  Their words

  This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy

  disarmingthenarcissist.com

Writer on time, productivity and limitation; wrote Four Thousand Weeks and Meditations for Mortals, and the newsletter The Imperfectionist.

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  The only thing a productivity system can do for you is help you choose slightly better what to do right now.

  Their words

  In the end, the only point of any personal productivity system, goal-setting technique or "life planning" exercise is to help you make a slightly better decision about what to do, right now

  List one task, do it, cross it outoliverburkeman.com

American author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and Everything Is F*cked. Writes essays and book reviews at markmanson.net.

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  Why We Sleep

  Their words

  A flawed but really useful book. Some of the data here is exaggerated, it appears.

  markmanson.net

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  If negative emotion comes from underweighting sensory evidence, that explains EMDR: it forces high-precision attention onto something the mind usually represses.

  EMDRPsychotherapy

  Their words

  First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.

  The Precision Of Sensory Evidenceastralcodexten.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  The Splendid and the Vile

  Their words

  The Splendid and the Vile is a brilliant account of another era of widespread anxiety: the years 1940 and 1941, when English citizens spent almost every night in makeshift shelters as massive bombs rained down on them.

  gatesnotes.com

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  The Thank You Economy

  Their words

  Is there a financially justifiable reason to send a customer an exorbitant gift like a football jersey? Gary makes a very compelling case for such a move and others like it. It's a great exercise in thinking about unconventional marketing opportunities.

  jasonevanish.com

Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.

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  A method you hate will end in burnout however well it works for other people, so it should be abandoned rather than endured.

  Their words

  For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.

  The Only True Way to Learn a Languagelucalampariello.com

Psychotherapist who trained with Jeffrey Young from 1989 and founded The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and the Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. Wrote Disarming the Narcissist.

From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com

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  Narcissism runs along a spectrum rather than being a category, and schema therapy treats it by working back to what early life embedded.

  PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism

  Their words

  the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum

  drjessicahiggins.com

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  Narcissists can change meaningfully in therapy, though nobody changes completely, and most of the work is persisting with empathic confrontation past the first rebuff.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

  Their words

  In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.

  drjessicahiggins.com

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  Nobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.

  PsychotherapyNarcissism

  Their words

  And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.

  drjessicahiggins.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism

  Their words

  undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.

  karpathy.github.io

American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.

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  Keeping You Awake

  Their words

  Keeping You Awake is a fantastic app for preventing your mac from going to sleep.

  joeprevite.com

Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  Amusing Ourselves to Death

  Their words

  Everyone needs to read this book. The observations were made in a pre-internet era, and they’re 10x as relevant today. Nothing will do more to help cure your information addiction that the healthy dose of reality provided in these pages.

  nateliason.com

Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.

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  A celebrated popular science book can consistently misrepresent the literature it summarises and contradict its own sources.

  Their words

  I found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. It misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.

  guzey.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Eye movement reprocessing went from alternative to establishment, and moving your eyes while talking about a trauma does seem to help you process it.

  EMDRTrauma

  Their words

  Eye movement directed reprocessing (alternative when the book was written, now basically establishment) where you move your eyes back and forth while talking about your trauma, and this seems to somehow help you process it better.

  Book Review: The Body Keeps The Scoreslatestarcodex.com

Journalist and author of Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation. Writes the newsletter Culture Study, which runs a recurring links-and-recommendations issue.

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  Zero Odor

  Their words

  The Detergent That Actually Makes Your Exercise Clothes Not Reek And Trust Me I’ve Tried A Lot: Zero Odor

  annehelen.substack.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Psychedelics work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors

  psychedelics

  Their words, before

  I suggested that psychedelics might work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors.

  Their words now

  A more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way

  Their words

  This book isn't just bad, it's dangerous.

  slatestarcodex.com

Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Compassionate Inquiry Online Training

  Their words

  Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.

  drgabormate.com

Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Withings Activité

  Their words

  I love anything that doesn't come with battery anxiety, like, well, my Masahiro Maruyama eyeglasses, or my original Withings Activité watch, which is waterproof, so I almost never take it off.

  usesthis.com

Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Nutrition is one of the domains where beliefs track group identity rather than evidence, so an expert's claims there deserve more suspicion than in physics.

  Their words

  The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.

  stephanguyenet.com

Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.

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  The executives of the Nutrition Science Initiative paid themselves their own enormous salaries out of a nonprofit's donations.

  Their words, before

  One thing that I think hasn’t gotten enough attention is the fact that NuSI staff, particularly Attia, paid themselves enormous salaries while they were at NuSI

  Their words now

  NuSI executives didn’t set their own compensation, as I and others have implied.

Game developer and moral philosopher; made QWOP, GIRP and Getting Over It, and teaches at the NYU Game Center.

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  Making a chess variant, a dice variant and a Pong variant is a worthwhile exercise for any game designer.

  Their words

  It's been my view for a while that it's a worthwhile exercise for any game designer to make a chess variant, a dice variant and a Pong variant.

  FLOPfoddy.net

Scottish GP and writer; author of Adventures in Human Being, Shapeshifters, Intensive Care and Recovery.

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  That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher

  Their words

  There's another ancient text I could have mentioned: Galen's That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher. It's essentially a call to arms for doctors to concentrate on the perfection of their clinical skills and to give up on ideas of attempts to get rich through their art. It shows all the ways in which he doesn't trust those doctors who use their talents for a gain other than the benefit of their patients. It is short and elegant.

  fivebooks.com

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  Frissure

  Their words

  So it's a book which is utterly original and gets at something very real and valuable about convalescence. Sometimes I find myself recommending it to patients.

  fivebooks.com

Co-founder and CEO of OpenAI; previously president of Y Combinator.

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  Chili Pad

  Their words

  I use a Chili Pad to be cold while I sleep if I can't get the room cold enough, which is great but loud (I set it up to have the cooler unit outside my room).

  blog.samaltman.com