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Hacker News, Jake Seliger’s story inspired new laws. New Hampshire is voting on a new bill HB701 that would make clinical trial access easier for terminal patients and massively ex…

New essay from Jake Seliger’s widow. Baby Athena is due in the next few days.

I, too, enjoy a nice, fluffy, social contract

Bad UX, great idea. Cursing in other languages is my prime influence for learning them.

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I wonder if there's a viral trigger to some of these mutations, similar to the way EBV is implicated in the development of MS. It would also be interesting to do a longitudinal stu…

"Creating content" meant for a platform tends to reduce quality to the lowest common denominator of what will work for that platform. When the algorithm reigns supreme, there's les…

I'm amused, but this would drive me absolutely effing bonkers and i wouldn't get anything done. It might be good for certain activities but for deep work and writing I'd lose it. I…

We were sure Jake would die within months. Then, a clinical trial drug gave us the gift of asking: what if he lives? When the only steady-state is death, uncertainty is the place w…