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Henrik Selje Bygnes

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Henrik Selje Bygnes

Hacking as a way to understand systems, people, and myself.

Everything can be broken. Most things can be fixed. I write to find the difference.

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The Man Who Got Addicted to Heroin in Real Time

·11 mins
BloodshotEyes came to a Norwegian forum asking how to inject heroin. Over the next four years, strangers watched his experiment become dependence, relapse, treatment, and despair.

"I Saw This One Study" - Why You're Reading Studies Wrong (And Why It Matters)

··6 mins
A rant about how people actually use studies: reading the headline, skipping the methods, and confusing confidence with understanding. On confounders, trial groups, funding bias, why ’no evidence’ isn’t ‘dangerous’, and why anecdotes are early signals worth taking seriously.

Magnesium - The Most Overlooked Deficiency

··14 mins
A slightly angry magnesium deep-dive: deficiency and soil, elemental magnesium, labels that make no sense, the real reason oxide absorbs poorly, and where studies and anecdotes each belong.