The shockwave rider

The Cognitive Debt of Digging Through Preprints

Your Brain on MIT Media Lab

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David A. Markowitz, Juan Benet, Jacques Carolan, Eli Dourado, Thomas Kalil, Amy Kruse, Adam Marblestone, Patrick Mineault, Joanne Peng, Joshua Rosenow, Sean Escola

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.

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 ...

A running list of ATproto ideas - Tynan's Leaflets

Updated when the brain has more

The New Wounded

This book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the “new wounded” (brain lesion patients) forms the matter of the confrontation.

Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Introductory Guide

This is an introduction to Building a Second Brain, the proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential

Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us

A reflection on the reading life. What formed it, what threatens it, and what remains.

Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future — Wait But Why

I knew the future would be shocking but this is a whole other level.