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• Bad Ideas Are Fun

  And once you loosen up your brain by coming up with ten bad ideas, some good ideas may follow. But here's another thing: we're not great at judging if an idea is good or bad. So write all of your ideas down.

• Submission and dominance among friends — Status dynamics are weirder than you might think.

  I recently found myself longing for male friends to act dominant over me. Imagining close male friends putting their arms over my shoulders and jostling me a bit, or squeezing my shoulders a bit roughly as they come up to talk to me felt good. Actions that clearly convey ‘I’m in charge here and I think you’ll like it’.

• Astral Codex Ten by Scott Alexander — Psychiatrist based in Bay Area writes about Bayes, rationalism, effective altruism and, well, psychiatry.