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

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  For psychiatric disorders driven by amygdala hyperactivity, elective amygdalectomy should be offered and covered by health insurance instead of lifelong therapy and medication.

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  If you suffer from amygdala hyperactivity that gives you one of the aforementioned psychiatric disorders, I think that not only should you be offered elective amygdalectomy, but your health insurance should be glad to pay for it (especially if done via ultramodern very safe radiosurgery) one time, rather than for a lifetime supply of more expensive, less effective talk therapies and medications.

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Writes Strange Loop Canon, on the intersection of technology, economics and business — "building models of the world to understand these problem areas and to define them better".

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  Institutions fail not because people are wicked, but because evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights flow in the wrong direction.

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  institutions don't fail because people are wicked. Evidence, incentives, discretion, and review rights might be flowing in the wrong direction.

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Founder and CEO of SaaStr, the B2B software community and events business, and a SaaS investor who previously co-founded EchoSign and sold it to Adobe.

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  Almost nobody should build their own AI go-to-market tools; buy them, the way you would buy any other software.

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  Don't build it yourself. You're not Versel. You don't have a full-time wicked awesome engineer that wants to build this.

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

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  Putting people into temporary shelter cuts crime and psychiatric emergencies without waiting for permanent housing to be built.

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  It turns out that simply getting people into temporary shelter—often derided by the homelessness-industrial complex as a band-aid—significantly reduces both social and individual harms of unsheltered homelessness.

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Palaeontologist at Queen Mary University of London; studies dinosaur behaviour and writes about what the fossil record can and cannot tell us.

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  The scavenger-versus-hunter argument about T. rex is over: the bite marks show it did both.

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  They're obviously both. A, because we've got things like the bite marks I just described, which is pretty much definitive scavenging, and then we've got the healed bite marks with T-rex teeth buried in bones, which is pretty much definitive active predation. So we've got evidence of it doing both.

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Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars. Has blogged at Feld Thoughts since 2004 and has written or co-written nine non-fiction books on startups and venture capital.

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  City on the Edge

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  It’s fantastic and is going to be a powerful and definitive story of San Francisco from 1990 to the present day.

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Software engineer and engineering leader at Canonical, working on Ubuntu; writes about his homelab, Nix and tooling at jnsgr.uk.

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  Ghostty

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  I moved from Alacritty to Ghostty, which has been absolutely excellent. It’s wicked fast, it has my favourite colour scheme built in, and I just love the way @mitchellh has set the project up for success in the long term. It also fits in nicely with my minimally configured applications, with excellent defaults out of the box.

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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

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  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.

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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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  Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance

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  (publication date March 18, 2025, Viking) by Laura Delano is a compelling and troubling memoir of psychiatric patienthood, iatrogenic harm, and finding a meaningful and flourishing life outside of the mental healthcare system.

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Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute. Keeps a personal site of reading lists, open questions and notes on scientific progress and how research is funded.

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  Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

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  Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech -- the definitive history of Genentech.

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Pseudonymous essayist. Writes at gwern.net on AI scaling, statistics, genetics and long-running internet research, with heavy citation and a habit of revising old essays in place rather than leaving them wrong.

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  Amy

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  Overall, required viewing for any Winehouse fan and of general psychiatric interest; possibly too painful to watch for others.

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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist; writes the daily blog and newsletter Pluralistic, and coined the term enshittification.

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  Technology bosses are ordinary monopolists rather than evil geniuses, and crediting them with having hacked our dopamine loops flatters them.

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  tech barons are ordinary mediocrities, no better and no worse than the monopolists that preceded them, and any differences come down to affordances in technology and regulation, not an especial wicked brilliance.

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