Artificial Intelligence / Science & Drug Discovery / Philosophy
This publication follows a building in public ethos. I adopted the habit from authors in the startup world, where blogging is a way to learn out loud and leave a trail as the work takes shape. Scientists have an older version of this in lab notebooks and field diaries. In either case, the act of writing forces thinking to occur, and doing it in public leaves a trail that can be audited and returned to over time.
I started this newsletter convinced I would write only about science. A year in, the pattern is clear, I write my curiosities. Without exaggeration, I've found cultivating this habit of curiosity and active inquiry to be the motor of self creation.
There is a mental alertness that arises with curiosity. By taking notice of what glimmers within the field of our attention, and by directing and holding the mind toward that point, we create a stable base from which to explore and engage the world beyond ourselves. We are brought into contact with the realm of ideas, and with the properties and problems of the natural world. Writing develops these somatic sensations into sustained intellectual inquiry by giving the attention a form, and the form becomes a trail I can return to as my thinking changes.
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