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February 14, 2025

Changelog

Last week I was supposed to do this week’s article, and got distracted by a cool feature of the study of language regions of the brain. Anyway, I updated last week’s article to stand alone, and this week’s article is what it should have been. If you read last weeks’ you can skip the intro to this weeks’ and just dive right in.


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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.