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Essayist and investor Paul Graham writes that societies tend to develop ‘social antibodies’ . . .” Paul Graham, “The Acceleration of Addictiveness,” July 2010, www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html.

Nir Eyal • Indistractable

*For more insight on this type of model, I recommend two articles published in 2010: “A Framework for Public Health Action,” by Thomas R. Frieden, in the American Journal of Public Health, and “A Conceptual Framework for Action on the Social Determinants of Health,” by the World Health Organization.

Rishi Manchanda • The Upstream Doctors: Medical Innovators Track Sickness to Its Source (Kindle Single) (TED Books)

Our patients’ lives and identities may be in our hands, yet death always wins.

Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

On Marc Ellis, Exile and the Prophetic (or Welcome to the New Diaspora Rabbi Rosen!)

Rabbi Brant Rosen rabbibrant.com

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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air

“Every age has its signature afflictions. Thus, a bacterial age existed; at the latest, it ended with the discovery of antibiotics. Despite widespread fear of an influenza epidemic, we are not living in a viral age. Thanks to immunological technology, we have already left it behind. From a pathological standpoint, the incipient twenty-first century... See more

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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

The more a Susceptible individual is informed – about numbers, places, patient concentrations in hospitals – the more their behavior will adjust to the context. Of course, this is not always the case – there will always be someone who reacts unpredictably – but most of us are equipped with reasoning skills. Scientific simulations take into account

Paolo Giordano • How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness, and Community in Times of Global Crises - The Essay That Helped Change the Covid-19 Debate

Andy Matuschak

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