analects noun, pl

/ˈan.ə.lɛkts/

a collection of ideas, extracts, or teachings.

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analects under the categories btrmt. believes in, as set out in the manifesto

analects organised according to the fundamental questions of philosophy

sequences of articles gathered around a more focused idea

  • the economy of small pleasures 8 Jul 2025 [marginalium] The continued failure of the economy of small pleasures. extrinsic incentives such as money or grades to learn [make it] harder to learn ne...
  • the line between sleep and wake 6 Jul 2025 [marginalium] There is a thin line between sleep and wake. You know this if you have sleep paralysis or are a lucid dreamer. In that spirit, here, we have...
  • are intelligentsia less happy 26 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Are intelligentsia less happy? An argument for why intelligent people are less happy—because intelligence does not measure how good you are...
  • the personal and private nature of smartphones 25 Jun 2025 [marginalium] The Personal and Private Nature of Smartphones: because smartphones are considerably more personal and private than PCs, using them activat...
  • nature is nurture 18 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Adding to the point of Genetics is Nurture, this article suggests the same thing but the other way around. An environment is specified often...
  • why individuals avoid information 17 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Why Individuals Avoid Information: A common hypothesis posits that individuals strategically avoid information to hold particular beliefs o...
  • christopher alexander and his patterns 10 Jun 2025 [marginalium] Christopher Alexander and his patterns. I talk about Christopher Alexander quite a few times in my content. His concept of a ‘centre’ in par...
  • ai personality extraction from faces (pdf) 9 Jun 2025 [marginalium] AI personality extraction from faces: we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate t...
  • the entangled brain 30 May 2025 [marginalium] The entangled brain. I liked this one, as an intro into the frontiers of how we think about cognitive neuroscience (i.e. how does the brain...
  • does testosterone effect economic preferences? 30 May 2025 [marginalium] Does Testosterone Effect Economic Preferences? This paper says no: Participants were randomly allocated to receive a single dose of either...
  • repression of memories is beside the point 13 May 2025 [marginalium] The ‘thorny’ topic of repressed memories usually misses the fact that at least some ‘repression’ is the same thing ‘directed forgetting’, th...
  • the psychology of pricing 8 May 2025 [marginalium] The psychology of pricing. This feels like something I would have written back in 2010. Very one simple trick. But frankly a lot of this stu...
  • what's the deal with autism rates 1 May 2025 [marginalium] What’s the deal with autism rates. A good analysis of the rate increase in the US. I think you’ll find that the rate is not that surprising...
  • adhd tiktoks are not about adhd 1 May 2025 [marginalium] ADHD TikToks are not about ADHD: … in the top 100 #ADHD TikTok videos. Despite the videos’ immense popularity (collectively amassing nearly...
  • metaphors shape minds 1 May 2025 [marginalium] Metaphors shape minds: Scientific analogies can crackle too. Consider one of the puzzles of the visual system: saccades, those rapid, darti...
  • nostalgia as a parasite 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Nostalgia as a parasite: It is now commonly understood that nostalgia can also be a prosocial emotion in the sense that it helps us recogni...
  • distraction is mind obesity 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Distraction is mind obesity. It’s another ‘the attention economy is bad’ article. But I liked it because it’s not just about taking our atte...
  • pretty accurate ai generated dmt trips 24 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Pretty accurate AI generated DMT trips.
  • we're wrong about adhd 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] We’re wrong about ADHD. Use a paywall buster: some scientists have begun to argue that the traditional conception of A.D.H.D. as an unchang...
  • psychedelics demolish assumptions 18 Apr 2025 [marginalium] Psychedelics demolish assumptions: With their uncanny ability to disrupt our ordinary modes of perception and thinking, psychedelics have l...

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