Assume

Deep reads on sleep, drugs, food and performance, where every claim is something you can take apart with your hands and every number is a source you can open.

To assume is to take a thing as true because checking it was inconvenient. Every number here is a place where someone checked.

A black and white ink painting of a climber sitting to rest on a snowy slope above the clouds, looking up at dozens of sunlit mountain peaks floating in the sky, each with a tiny figure standing on the summit with arms raised

ASM 02

RomanSep 15, 20267 min14 sources

Everyone else's best day

The arithmetic that makes every feed look better than any life, the best evidence on what that does to the people scrolling it, and why the effect is smaller than the argument about it.

A black and white painting of an old elephant standing alone on a dry plain at dusk, with the rest of the herd walking away in a line along the far horizon

ASM 01

RomanSep 6, 202616 min9 sources

How many times left

A time-use curve nobody plans around, the arithmetic that follows from it, and the reasons that curve may be saying less than it appears to.