Missives
Keep track of what's happened since you were last here with the newsletters and the changelog.
December 12, 2024
Changelog
A big series of articles largely around the psychology of groups and leadership will take precedence over the next few weeks as I (re)familiarise myself with the content we teach at my new job.
December 8, 2024
Changelog
Updated On managing magic mushroom experiences to include a section specifically on risks of harm. Most of the literature, as you can expect, is on clinical use, and the literature that isn’t is pretty vague (again, as you’d expect from survey data recruiting from drug-use forums). But some clear points emerge—relative to other drugs, especially alcohol, psychedelics are astonishingly safe, and become even safer with careful, thoughtful, and better yet supervised use. Which is something you might have anticipated, given the rise of legal jurisdictions and use in clinical settings. But the ‘enduring changes’ that make them so appealing for clinical use are exactly the thing we should be taking care to think about, because there’s no guarantee these enduring changes need to be a good thing.
October 11, 2024
Changelog
I updated my article on neurotransmitters so substantially that I republished it this week. I still think they’re useless to talk about, but at least now you’ll come away better informed about them than anyone who tries to use them to make you buy something.