Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 12th/13th July 2025
The Changing World Order by Ray Dalio
“I believe that the reason people typically miss the big moments of evolution coming at them in life is that we each experience only tiny pieces of what’s happening. We are like ants preoccupied with our jobs of carrying crumbs in our minuscule lifetimes instead of having a broader perspective of the big-picture patterns and cycles, the important interrelated things driving them, and where we are within the cycles and what’s likely to transpire. From gaining this perspective, I’ve come to believe that there are only a limited number of personality types going down …”
Stay in the Game by Drew Dickson
“He was an amazing child, and became an amazing young man. But he had his demons. And just before he turned 16 years old, those demons arrived with a vengeance. I will spare you the details, but for the next three years, he went through a personal hell. Imagine all the things you don’t want to have happen to your teenager. They happened to him. For three years my wife and I would wait on our front stoop until 5:00 am, in the shadow of the Albert Bridge, hoping that he would come home. On those nights that he didn’t, we would call the hospitals and call the police. And sometimes the police would call us …”
Why don’t we know how antidepressants by Andy Extance
“2024 marks 50 years since researchers published the first paper on the first SSRI, fluoxetine, which came to market as Prozac in 1988. Today, SSRIs are widely used to treat depression: in England in 2022, 46 million prescriptions for SSRIs were dispensed, with 21 millions of those for the SSRI sertraline, making it the 10th most prescribed drug that year. That compares to 57 million prescriptions for the most prescribed drug, atorvastatin, in the same year …”
Founders (need) Focus
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What does it do?
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Who it’s for?
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Qs?
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