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“with the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the Profession. DSM-3. DSM-3, and then there's been DSM-3R, DSM-4, DSM-4TR, and now DSM-5. Finally, not with a Roman numeral, but with an Arabic numeral. So they thought with DSM-5, when they needed to modify it, it would be like a piece of software.”

#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung · 17/09/2026 · at 13:34

“for a couple of decades. What caused it to stop, and you talk about the progress of science, was the discovery of penicillin, which was a real magic bullet. So once you had penicillin, you weren't going to continue treating people with malaria.”

#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung · 17/09/2026 · at 1:10:22

“extrapolate what nine months from now is going to look like. When two years from now, it's going to look like. But as an intellectual experiment, I think the first computer I used was a Commodore 64. Me too. Cool. It had one megahertz CPU and 64K of memory.”

#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux · 26/08/2026 · at 1:09:00