Notes from James
WEEKLY LETTER
ISSUE #1 · APR 19
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My goal of this week’s newsletter is to both, share what I have been thinking, but also to get you to think along with me. If this email makes you think, send me a reply about what you are thinking about. I would love to have a dialogue with all of you.
Otherwise, I could just write about this in a journal.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“We think we invented railways to get from London to Manchester or New York to Philadelphia, we didn’t. We invented them as places to think. Because in a half empty carriage what better place than to get to know not the destination but yourself.”
New On YouTube
How the Placebo Effect is Threatening the Drug Industry
In this weeks episode of Pull the Thread I discovered the power of the placebo effect. My conclusion is this: the placebo effect is a real treatment, it can create positive medical outcomes, and it’s the drug industry’s worst nightmare.
A very interesting topic. The goal of the medical industry is to heal people, right? Then why not start with the treatment that doesn’t have any negative side effects?
Last Week’s Learning
All learning videos can be found on my Instagram
Day 240 Why you should make your bed
Day 241 Fun Facts about Thailand
Day 242 How hope can make you work 24,000% longer
Day 243 A brief intro to the power of the placebo effect
Day 244 The Strauss Howe Generation Theory
Day 245 Why is the sky blue?
Day 246 What does the SpaceX IPO mean?
From James
The best part about writing in a newsletter is that I can’t get censored! If you are subscribed to this email list, then you get to read what I write no matter what I say. That’s a very important message this week after I made the placebo video that attacks a vulnerability of the drug industry.
Over the past 246 days of posting I have been censored on different platforms on different topics such as Elon Musk, Ozempic, Looksmaxxing, and now; The Placebo Effect.
It’s frustrating to put work into researching for a video, recording, and editing, only for the video to not reach your audience because the topic doesn’t align with the owner of the platform. With new AI algorithms in place, it is easier than ever to censor a video because a human is no longer doing the censoring, an AI agent is. This means that censoring happens faster, and with less accuracy then if a human was doing it.
In my experience, every video that you post reaches a bare minimum number of viewers so that the platform can determine if people like your video and if they want to show the video to more people. In my experience of censorship, the video is no longer shown to the bare minimum of people. The algorithms that run the top social media platforms are able to determine if your video should be shared with the platform before any human sees the video.
Something to be aware of when you are scrolling.
- James