Category: psychology
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2025 in Review
It’s been a pleasant, mostly regular year. If there is a theme, I’d say it’s that I’ve entered an analogue phase. I’ve stepped back from the digital and embraced the physical. That means vinyl records, lifting heavy things, making my photos look like film, biking and hiking down paths with no GPS, sweating sweat out…
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Artificial Intelligence and the Erosion of Trust
Last night, I watched a documentary called Endurance, about the search for the shipwreck of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s failed attempt to cross the Antarctic. It’s an incredible story about the spirit of humanity. But as I watched footage of the crew and audio of their voices from 1915, I thought: is this humanity at all?…
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The Paradoxical Appeal of Horror
I write genre fiction—mostly horror. I’m also a brain scientist. Occasionally, I like to combine those things and explore the irrationality of the horror genre with an attempt at rational thought. Have you ever thought about how damn strange horror really is? Yeah yeah, obviously spooky stuff is strange, and it’s always been an outcast of a…
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