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Psychotechnology

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Psychedelics, meditation, neuroscience, neurotech. Occasional writing advice. Click to read Psychotechnology, by Sasha Putilin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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2026 12

  1. A Ripped-Out Poem, or How I Voted in Russia’s Parliamentary “Election”
  2. Vase Breath: the clench-your-anus meditation
  3. 5-MeO-DMT sometimes cancels the Ebbinghaus illusion
  4. Jhana 5: Romance with the Void
  5. The Death of the Author
  6. How Standup Is Similar to Gothic Architecture
  7. Em dashes are fucking amazing
  8. Strip-searched at the Serbian border
  9. Never Cross a River Four Feet Deep on Average
  10. I Went to an Illegal London Weed Coffeeshop
  11. I’m offering writing coaching for self-expression
  12. Near-Instantly Aborting the Worst Pain Imaginable with Psychedelics

2025 37

  1. Missing a Flight to Abu Dhabi
  2. Writing as Psychotechnology (30/30)
  3. On Sticking 2C-T-2 Up My Ass (29/30)
  4. Unconferences: A Better Way to Run Meetups (28/30)
  5. Thanksgiving (27/30)
  6. Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (26/30)
  7. Neural Annealing: Directing Psychedelic Trips Towards Healing (25/30)
  8. Microdosed Trainspotting: Buying Painkillers in the UK vs the US (24/30)
  9. A One-Minute ADHD Test (23/30)
  10. A Nicotine Analogue I Had Known and Didn’t Love: 6-methylnicotine (22/30)
  11. My meditation teacher, Roger Thisdell (21/30)
  12. DIY Psychological Parts-Work: A Hacker’s Guide to IFS and Entactogens (20/30)
  13. Strapping Mephedrone to My Balls (19/30)
  14. Sci-Fi Story: “Happy Aliens” (18/30)
  15. Mephedrone is a Cursed Drug (17/30)
  16. My Ethical Conundrum Around Writing About Meditation (16/30)
  17. Never Say “Let’s Stay in Touch” (15/30)
  18. How My Speed Date Got Stolen Onstage at a Live Comedy Dating Show (14/30)
  19. Speed Dating Is a Gym for Romantic Skills (13/30)
  20. Sci-Fi Story: “The Laws of Nature Prohibit This” (12/30)
  21. Finding My Internal Compass, Literally (11/30)
  22. On Trying Two Dozen Different Psychedelics (10/30)
  23. Control is a Drug (9/30)
  24. Giving Money to Homeless People (8/30)
  25. A week of Inkhaven (7/30)
  26. A Love Song to Nicotine (6/30)
  27. Do 100 things (5/30)
  28. Do Nothing Meditation (4/30)
  29. DARKFIELD: ARCADE (3/30)
  30. Writing under my real name (2/30)
  31. I am writing 30 posts in 30 days (1/30)
  32. I'm replicating a neurotech study and looking for participants in London
  33. “Are you taking the Pais” — A Wine Review
  34. Writing Hack: Retyping a Draft from Scratch
  35. “Can AI have a soul?” — A conversation with a Christian monk
  36. Writing Hack: Write It Just Like That
  37. How I Lost My Backpack with Passports and Laptop

2024 2

  1. “A trackless path”: a book review you shouldn’t be reading
  2. Shitposting is a blessed epistemic mode. Or how I started caring about shrimp welfare

2023 4

  1. Zen and the art of speedrunning enlightenment
  2. Determining the golden ratio of ketamine stereoisomers
  3. Prosocial mischief: gently fucking with social scripts via improv
  4. Ganymede: a reliable "synthetic mood" that no longer works

2022 9

  1. Poetry and Math. On finding meaning in fixed frameworks
  2. The mind is a shape rotation engine not a wordcel takes generator: how therapy and affirmations work
  3. Pain, suffering and chronic pain
  4. Self-love is scary
  5. Here be dragons
  6. Stuff
  7. Postrationalist twitter on therapy
  8. Acceptance™ is not a solution to psychological problems
  9. Coming soon