links 5/23/25: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/05-23-2025

• Convergent Research is hiring https://jobs.lever.co/convergentresearch
• https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/05/no-evidence-of-effects-of-testosterone-on-economic-preferences.html testosterone doesn't appear to affect economic preferences like risk-taking, in a large (n=1000) randomized trial
• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/07/13/welcome-to-nixonland/ Carlos Bueno on Nixonland
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322-h/1322-h.htm Leaves of Grass
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45477/song-of-myself-1892-version Song of Myself
• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/02/25/the-epic-struggle-between-good-and-neutral/
  • yet another "feeling + premodern culture vs. thinking and markets" dichotomy that seems to be more about his own personality than a universal axis of variation
• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/08/26/the-scientific-sensibility/
  • same deal -- science is unsentimentality? sort of, but is that the essence of the thing?

• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/04/28/immortality-begins-at-forty/ content warning: aging, cynicism. but actually a piece that has stayed with me