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Why I’m setting up a new free speech campaign (and how you can help!)

Dear readers,

Dec 3, 2025 • Sam Atis

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November 2025

How and Why You Should Cut Your Social Media Usage

In the past year or so, I’ve become increasingly convinced that much of the time spent on the internet and on social media is bad both for me…

Nov 25, 2025 • Sam Atis

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Everything I’ve learnt about making your career go well

Giving people advice on how to get a job is a minefield, because the way that I get jobs is probably rather different from the way that you get jobs…

Nov 19, 2025 • Sam Atis

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What do I believe?

1) One boring meta-point: I believe that nobody should have much certainty about their beliefs.

Nov 14, 2025 • Sam Atis

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Things you should know about London

After I wrote my post about things you should know, a commenter suggested writing a list specifically about London, which I thought was a rather good…

Nov 10, 2025 • Sam Atis

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Notes on forecasting strategy

Becoming a top forecaster may not work exactly how you think it does...

Nov 5, 2025 • Sam Atis

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October 2025

Things you should know

Lots of writing is filled with amusing stories and other types of pleasant noise.

Oct 15, 2025 • Sam Atis

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April 2025

Where are we headed?

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Dry Socket and Love o3

Apr 17, 2025 • Sam Atis

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May 2024

Recommendations (and thoughts about those recommendations)

[Status: haven’t written anything in months, feeling guilty, wrote this in 20 minutes, don’t expect quality].

May 10, 2024 • Sam Atis

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December 2023

Stuff I found interesting in December

1) How often does correlation equal causation? One neat example is Wilde and Hollister (2002):

Dec 31, 2023 • Sam Atis

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Stuff I found interesting in November

Welcome to the monthly ‘Stuff I Found Interesting’ post.

Dec 2, 2023 • Sam Atis

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November 2023

Weird people doing good things

Scott Alexander and Freddie DeBoer both published articles on Effective Altruism in the past few days.

Nov 29, 2023 • Sam Atis

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