Max Shen

If you have chronic pain and feel stuck, Tanner or I want to help you run structured experiments to debug it. Backstory: I nearly dropped out of my grad degree at MIT because of wrist pain. Typing had become effectively impossible and, worse still, the advice from the doctor and…

I love Max, strongly recommend him for chronic pain issues

📅Event: Developing Somatic Intelligence @mxslk had a very interesting recent discussion with @drmichaellevin and @adamsafron that I spotted on youtube - and I'll actually share some more thoughts about that soon as well. If I didn't have a some other obligations, I might…

after 8 months of back and forth we finally fixed this active inference agent which learns to infer 'pain' from nociception and neutral cues — preprint incoming

The talk was awesome :) Thank you @fractaltechnyc for hosting — amazing crowd, rich discussion afterwards on body as collective intelligence

What a week – Recorded my pain manifesto – Guest on my first podcast – Long-form chat w/ Mike Levin – Ran two workshops Feeling very energized

Apple Podcasts is basically my favorite search engine. I’ve yet to find a faster way to get up to speed on any given meta

Every time I get triggered, I add a short phrase to my notes doc. Most of the benefit is from the noting, but it also ends up being a potent source for inner exploration

After browsing for expensive noise cancellation earphones that let me take calls amid the wind I realized I could do it for 50 cents

what was great about using chris' chatbot was that after like 4 interactions I internalized a self-inquiry loop that was helpful with clients and also dealing with my own stuff (like condensed coherence therapy)