Missives
Keep track of what's happened since you were last here with the newsletters and the changelog.
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.
July 12, 2024
Changelog
Now my PhD is done, I’ll probably spend a bit of time consolidating what I learned. For the next couple weeks, a series trying to explain my PhD, because people keep asking. I want to point out that my initial response to this is always “I promise that you won’t care”, but no one ever believes me. So, as a punishment, I’m going to make you read it. For three articles. You did this to yourselves.
June 9, 2024
Changelog
First newsletter in over a year. Represents me finishing all the back-end website stuff that will make me use this properly again. I won’t bore you with the details.
We’ll shoot now for an article and a newsletter every week, I reckon. Let’s see.