To The Great City!

Warm personal essay marking the end of Scott's Michigan psychiatry residency and his move to San Francisco. He reflects on surviving intern year and crossing 'the border into competence,' praises his hospital and co-residents, and frames them via Vonnegut's distinction: the Michigan colleagues are his granfalloon (people thrown together for a purpose), while the rationalist/EA community is his karass (kindred brought together for a deeper purpose). He recalls the value-drift letter he wrote himself four years earlier and notes, happily, that his values didn't drift -- he still wants to be back west.

Quality 58 · Solid. A well-written, warm personal post with a couple of nice conceptual touches (granfalloon/karass; the value-drift letter), but primarily personal news. Low-Solid, co-tier with his residency-start announcement.

Claude’s paradigm shift 30 · Slight. Slight. Borrows Vonnegut's framing and the standard rationalist value-drift concept; personal in nature.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. A warm personal essay marking his move to San Francisco (granfalloon/karass; the value-drift letter); primarily personal news, with no material-world reach → RWI 1.