From 2019 to 2022, the cryptocurrency exchange FTX stole 8-10 billion dollars from customers. In summer 2022, FTX’s charitable arm gave me two grants totaling $33,000. By the time the theft was rev…| Aceso Under Glass
Ketamine is an anesthetic with growing popularity as an antidepressant. As an antidepressant, it’s quite impressive. When it works, it’s often within hours- a huge improvement over giving a suicida…| Aceso Under Glass
I’m going to describe a Type Of Guy starting a business, and you’re going to guess the business: The founder is very young, often under 25. He might work alone or with a founding team, but wh…| Aceso Under Glass
For two years I had the good fortune to work at Sendwave/Wave (they were one company at the time), a company that made remittances cheap and workable in certain African countries. I am proude…| Aceso Under Glass
I’m currently investigating ketamine, with the goal of assessing the risks of chronic use. For reasons I will get into in the real post, this is going to rely mostly on in vitro data, at least for neural damage, which means I need a way to translate real-world dosages into the concentration of ketamine in … Continue reading "Ketamine Part 1: Dosing"| Aceso Under Glass
Tl;dr how can I improve my literature-review based posts? I write a fair number of blog posts that present the data from scientific papers. There’s a balancing act to this- too much detail and peop…| Aceso Under Glass
In this episode of the podcast I talk with Ivan Gayton, former mission head at Doctors Without Borders and currently obsessed with placing mapping technology in the hands of the developing world. I…| Aceso Under Glass
In this episode of our podcast, Timothy Telleen-Lawton and I talk to Oliver Habryka of Lightcone Infrastructure about his thoughts on the Open Philanthropy Project, which he believes has become sti…| Aceso Under Glass
Short version It has always felt like a gift that people read things I write, and I enjoyed reciprocating that by sharing my writing for free. Until recently I had enough income to pull that …| Aceso Under Glass
Before we get started, this is your quarterly reminder that I have no medical credentials and my highest academic credential is a BA in a different part of biology (with a double major in computer …| Aceso Under Glass
