Missives
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September 27, 2024
Changelog
Some renovations around here. As usual, you will see little of them, but they make my life easier. You’ll mostly notice the new Analects page: less cluttered and more straightforward to navigate and filter. Bit more app-like. Also, click on any marginalium. No more page of endless marginalia. Lastly, you can go to any missive and use the buttons at the top to scroll to the next or previous missives.
August 30, 2024
Changelog
I updated my article on making meaning in the brain, and made some small edits to repressed memories this week, alongside the usual article.
July 26, 2024
Changelog
Last week’s distraction from writing about my PhD, looking at shared madness, led me to finally update my long-running article on successful prophets. We think of cults as the product of dangerously charismatic leaders but on examination this narrative falls apart. Really, the most successful prophets are not a person, but the followers, who use the leader as an emblem.
July 19, 2024
Changelog
As a break from tapping out the findings of my PhD, I also returned to an old article, on folie à deux, or ‘shared madness’ and updated it this week. It’s probably not so rare as one might think.