Secretorum

A newsletter about social science, the future, and why people behave in the way that they do.

1) Find what's true and make it useful. 2) Publish every other Tuesday. 3) Photo cred: my dad.

If you're so smart, why aren't you mistaken?

How can we ensure the knowledge we need to thrive as a civilization is invented and reproduced?

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein

The next industrial revolution will be the ability to describe things well.

Russian psychedelia in exile 🍄

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

Hic sunt dracones and many other things

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Learning, epistemology, occasional stories

We build 21st century institutions of science.

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