These blogs are now archived and redirect here. Doug currently writes at Substrate, a digital garden of notes, ideas, and reflections.
Sources — Belshaw Brain Archive
These blogs are now archived and redirect here. Doug currently writes at Substrate, a digital garden of notes, ideas, and reflections.
Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb
My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.
Open-source software reveals complete 3D architecture of brain cells
The neurons in our brain that underlie thought connect to each other using tiny branch-like structures on their surfaces known as dendritic spines. Now scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute and ...
Neurodiversity | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Magic Paper
Working notes by Michael Nielsen, November 2017. Followup to (but doesn't require) my notes on Chalktalk.
Roland-Allen.com
Home of the author of THE NOTEBOOK: A HISTORY OF THINKING ON PAPER, available now
Simon Willison on Blogging
Link to: https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging
The REAL Second Brain: an autonomous, self-hosted knowledge wiki that runs on cheap local models
How I turned Karpathy's "LLM wiki" sketch into a system that actually maintains itself — no frontier API, no human in the loop, nothing leaving my LAN.
Computational Psychiatry Needs Systems Neuroscience
This piece was originally published in The Transmitter. I am adapting it here with some additional context for readers of this newsletter.
This Is Your Brain on Podcasts (Published 2016)
Different people’s brains absorb a compelling story in the roughly the same complicated pattern, using many parts of the brain, researchers found.
Synapse | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Jeff Hawkins Is Finally Ready to Explain His Brain Research (Published 2018)
He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.
Brennan Kenneth Brown / brennan.day · GitLab
Brennan's IndieWeb blog built with Eleventy. Essays, poetry, and musings on writing, technology, and the human experience. | https://brennan.day
blog-to-atproto
resources and blogs for publishing your writing to standard.site, where it becomes searchable across several platforms and affords you a fancy link on Bluesky
Neuroscience, Cognition & Psychology
Neurotech + NeuroAI
Anti-democratic attitudes are highly contagious, new psychology study finds
Hyperactive–impulsive ADHD traits predict higher curiosity in adults: evidence from a cross-sectional study
Understanding the influence of digital technology on human cognitive functions: A narrative review
How the hypercuriosity of ADHD may have helped humans thrive | Aeon Essays
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together
Pushing this blog to ATProto through standard.site
Making a Ghost Blog a Valid standard.site Publication
standard.site validator
Publishing My Eleventy Blog to the ATmosphere with Standard.site
Publishing on the Atmosphere with Standard.site
Publishing · Standard Reader
Dydema — Making brain–computer interfaces work
Log in — Semble
kkontras/NeuroAtlas
The Many Brains Project
Project Overview ‹ NeuroDatasets Tool – MIT Media Lab
E11 Bio | Moonshot Neuroscience