Meet the Meetups Czar

Astral Codex Ten (and its predecessor Slate Star Codex) is a wildly popular blog by psychiatrist Scott Alexander about “a sort of hidden node at the center of art and harmony and rationality and the rest”. Scott’s writing has been described by The New Yorker as “delightfully weird” and his arguments “often counterintuitive and brilliant”. The blog has about 125,000 subscribers on Substack and is currently the #3 bestseller in the category “Science”. Beyond this, it’s been a hugely influential example to the blogosphere — it’s one of the blogs that made us want to start blogging ourselves. One thing that distinguishes ACX from other blogs is its exceptionally strong community: an unparalleled comments section, a thriving series of book review (and other) contests, and of course, ACX Meetups, where readers of the blog can hang out in person and pass around their tungsten cubes, so that everyone can say in turn, “wow, it’s heavier than I expected”. This last pillar of the community is…