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David Epstein @davidepstein.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Be Alice, not Caesar — who cried about being behind the pace of Alexander the Great before taking over the Roman Republic, turning it into a dictatorship, and getting murdered by his own friends. davidepstein.substack.com

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David Epstein @davidepstein.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

At a banquet,Bernhard Rust,Nazi Minister for Science,asked Hilbert if the math dept. had really suffered any ill effects from the departure of Jews and their sympathetic colleagues. “No, it hasn’t suffered,”Hilbert replied.“It simply doesn’t exist anymore.” davidepstein.substack.com/p/a-dubious-...

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A Dubious Science History Lesson

The exclusion of "outsiders" isn't a strategy for scientific success

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David Epstein @davidepstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"What Emily is doing is helping me avoid what psychologists know as 'the illusion of explanatory depth' — a cognitive bias that describes our tendency to believe we understand something better than we really do because we gloss over the details." davidepstein.substack.com/p/fact-check...

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Fact-Checking and the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

I don't know how I know, I just know... or do I?

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Greg Donovan @gregsdonovan.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Overcoming an elite athlete’s ability to excessively focus on training to the exclusion of everything else. Stepping away: an overlooked advantage of high performers [. @davidepstein.bsky.social ] davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-hobbie...

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Why Hobbies Are An Advantage, Not a Distraction

Stepping away: an overlooked advantage of high performers

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Christie Aschwanden @cragcrest.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Happy Book Day to Alex Hutchinson. Launch day for the Explorer's Gene. Get a taste of it in this fun Q&A with @davidepstein.bsky.social davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...

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Why You Should Get Lost More Often

The benefits of exploration for joy, health, and work — a Q&A with Alex Hutchinson.

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 09/01/2025

How to make resolutions that might actually stick. The wonderful @davidepstein.bsky.social asked for my advice, but as usual I suspect I learned more from him than the other way around: davidepstein.substack.com/p/how-to-mak...

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How to Make Resolutions That Might Actually Stick

Give specificity and reflection a try

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Peter Abraham @peterabraham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"From now on, I plan to take a news vacation every year." This post by @davidepstein.bsky.social spoke to me, especially right now, when I am burned out by current events: davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-ne...

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Why You Need a News Vacation

We're not made for 24/7 feeds of catastrophe

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David Epstein @davidepstein.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"For two months I did not read anything else, neither newspapers nor magazines, and I felt so good..." -Leo Tolstoy, in this week's post davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-you-ne...

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Why You Need a News Vacation

We're not made for 24/7 feeds of catastrophe

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NOETIC @noeticbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#read #nonfiction #books This is a great book, one of my favourites, and a handy reassurance to those of us who still don't know what to become in life. Read broadly, my friends! Thank You David. @davidepstein.bsky.social

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David Epstein @davidepstein.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"Pretty quickly it became obvious that a project like what 23andMe tried would not be revolutionary, and might be completely useless." davidepstein.substack.com/p/why-geneti...

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Why Genetic Medicine Never Arrived

DNA: more complicated than we thought

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