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"
Perambulations
Circular thoughts on meta-science, technology, and healthcare.
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Read 8 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 2 years.
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The road to an R01
...and whether K awards help you get there
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.
Policy should be adaptive
Allowing automatic updates to policy implementation can nudge us towards better equilibria
Seeing like a system
A review of John Gall's "Systemantics"
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 size changes the probability that a paper will disrupt citation patterns in future articles.
How I manage information
Fighting back entropy one highlight at a time
What is status?
Defining status through the lens of cultural evolution
The weight of history on diagnosis
Thoughts on nosology's impact on AI and human enhancement
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 I’d try posting a choice set of cyber delectations here on a quarterly basis. Without further ado…