Sadly, PornEdward Teach
Sadly, Porn
by Edward Teach · first published 2021
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If you want a better book on this topic, I can recommend "Sadly, Porn" by Edward Teach MD, also known as The Last Psychiatrist.
on “A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem” ↗Sadly, Porn by Edwars Teach (better known as The Last Psychiatrist). He has a very opinionated style, so if it doesn't work for, you'll hate it. At the same time, I've found it extremely insightful about human nature…
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?” ↗…Not everything needs to be an optimization game. What also isn't discussed much that that readers have different tastes. Sometimes I enjoy a long, rambling narrative if I like the author's style (eg Sadly, Porn). Other times I wish they'd have just written a pamphlet with their 1 interesting idea (eg Die With Zero).
on “I give you feedback on your blog post draft but you don't send it to me (2021)” ↗Yeah, he was doxxed a few too many times and quit writing under the Alone/Last Psychiatrist pseudonym. He recently published two books "Penelope's Dream" and "Sadly, Porn" under the name Edward Teach, and he may have continued writing under another false name, but if he did none of his regular fans know about it.
on “Narcissistic Collapse” ↗…life psychiatry practice, briefly blogged on Tumblr under a different psuedonym, and has since had little online presence other than rare tweets and randomly dropping a self-published book on Amazon (_Sadly, Porn_ by 'Edward Teach').
on “Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain” ↗…posits that we don't have real desires. Instead we make up surrogate reasons and social permission structures to get things done. And if we have desires, they're surrogate desires anyway. It's called "Sadly, Porn" - with the allusion being we're living a pornographic life. Personally I think it's fun and interesting, but I've seen reactions ranging between "banal", "amazing", "disturbing", "pomo nonsense" I think…
on “You have only so much time – are you using it right?” ↗Scott Alexander is a smart guy, but not everything needs to match taste. For instance, he describes the writer of the book Sadly, Porn as remarkably erudite and so on. The community he belongs to has the habit of describing each other as very smart, certainly, and particularly having pretensions to Hegel but overall he's quite trustworthy.…
on “What Gets Kept” ↗