Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling

Imagine studying something that nobody else is studying, for reasons you can’t really articulate, without knowing what the outcome of your work will be. For the truly obsessed person, the need for validation isn’t about ego; it’s about sanity. You want to know there’s some meaning behind the dizzying mental labyrinth that you simultaneously can’t e

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One of the biggest challenges people have when embarking on an unconventional path is disconnecting from extrinsic markers of success and listening to internal motivational cues. On the default path, you can spend an entire career playing other people’s games. At first, people on a pathless path try to fill the lack of extrinsic goals with new ones... See more

It was only after losing a patient during the pandemic, a loss that was partly due to being stretched too thin, that Amy and others began to think: This isn’t a personal failure, it’s a systemic failure. Even before patient counts rose, the workplace culture had already celebrated nurses who pushed themselves to the brink with more responsibilities

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