Henry Winslow 🫠

Been a while. I haven’t posted here since this platform was still called Twitter. Since then, I left the company I co-founded for a decade, sat with both of my parents through psychedelic experiences, lost my father to cancer, and started building something new. At @Redox, we helped build infrastructure for modern healthcare. Now I’m building infrastructure for legal psychedelic care @with_althea. We started in Oregon and Colorado, where psychedelic therapy is regulated by the state. Today, most legal healing centers in those markets use Althea to manage compliance, outcomes, payments, and client journeys. We’ve now documented 4,000+ psychedelic sessions and support the majority of the regulated market. What’s become clear to me is that the biggest challenge isn’t awareness. Millions of people are curious about psychedelics for healing, growth, grief, addiction, depression, creativity, spirituality, or simply feeling more alive again. But there’s no trusted consumer front door. People don’t know: - when it makes sense - how to do it safely - who to trust - what model is right for them - or how this all fits into healthcare and society That’s the problem I’m obsessed with now. I’ll probably start posting more about: - psychedelic care infrastructure - healthcare + psychedelics - consumer trust and marketplaces - regulation and policy - what I’m learning building Althea - and occasionally the deeper personal/philosophical side of all this If that sounds interesting, like this post so I know you’re still here for the journey. And if you followed me purely for interoperability APIs circa 2018… no hard feelings ☮️

@arcticinstincts The astrobiologist Bruce Damer came back from an ayahuasca journey with a new hypothesis on the origin of life on Earth. He and his colleagues went on to publish several academic papers about it. It’s generally regarded as a legitimate scientific breakthrough.

Has anyone ever come out of these “profound” psychedelic trips with a verifiable scientific insight or breakthrough in physics or psychology or something? Can you fix Africa now? Why do these trip reports just read like Eckhart Tolle Burning man Deepak Chopramaxxed guruslop

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Q&A with @TricycleDay in which we cover the impact of psychedelics on memory and creativity, as well as a concussion I had that led to my interest in memory. @henrywinfast is such a great interviewer and resource for distilling science! tricycleday.com/p/manoj-doss

@FZierer @creator__spot I’m impressed with @creator__spot’s glow up over the past year too! That teaser trailer tho

Today on the @creator__spot podcast, @henrywinfast. My first guest in the newsletter 1 year ago this week! He's back to discuss how he went from not making a living from his psychedelics policy, research, and business newsletter in year 1 to tripling revenue in year 2.

@attrell @PaulAustin3w As in hot tubs and swimming pools, if I’m correctly reading the subtext

Just say no to ketamine in bodies of water

@Steele_Jared Shrooooomtank

Was just minding my business the other week. Suddenly these random old men came up, started badgering me with detailed biz questions & kept touching my product. What’s wrong with people nowadays??

@thesamparr en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and…

I'm visiting Yale's campus tomorrow. What's cool to see? I'm going because I'm an American history buff and lots of people I admire went there. Nerd stuff. What cool history related stuff do you recommend?

@JMatthewMcGarry Smart, Matt. I'm down to give this a shot.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Today, we’re launching the GrowLetter Ad Network: A commission-only ad sales service for newsletter publishers AND done-for-you ad buying services for marketers. Over 90% of newsletters lose money because they have unsold ad inventory. Why? Selling ads is hard. Publishers need to: - Reach out to hundreds of prospects monthly. - Grow your list, create content, and do all the other stuff in your business. - Make ad creative, manage campaigns, send IOs, share reports, collect payments, and work to upsell advertisers on bigger packages. Even if you do all that well, 90%+ of publishers still have unsold ads! And the marketer's job buying newsletter ads isn’t easy either. Newsletter ad buying is broken for marketers. They need to: - Find and vet the best newsletters to buy in. - Negotiate, make creative, optimize landing pages, send payment, and track down ad reports across multiple publishers. - Do this across dozens of newsletters to scale. This can amount to the work of a full time job. Most marketers are just too busy to grow with newsletters effectively! The sad part is... The best marketers know newsletters are a massively underrated growth channel — if used correctly. What makes this even worse is the bad actors out there: - Newsletter publishers that lie about their numbers and grow their email lists with low-quality (or fake) subscribers using shady growth hacks. And, - Marketers who stiff publishers on payment and try to advertise sketchy offers. Of course, there are hundreds of high-quality newsletters and ethical marketers. But buying and selling ads in this environment is hard. We’re changing this. We created the GrowLetter Ad Network to connect vetted publishers and advertisers so both parties can win. Here’s how the GrowLetter Ad Network works (for publishers): - There’s no cost unless we bring you an advertiser you’re not currently working with - We handle billing, ad creative (with your input), tracking links, and reporting - We help advertisers optimize their landing pages and offer - No exclusivity — work with any seller or ad network - We only sell flat fee sponsorships — no CPC - We use your ad pricing and never mark up - Almost no time required from publishers For marketers, GrowLetter makes it easy to: - Buy targeted ads across dozens of high-quality and vetted email newsletters. - Scale your newsletter ads without the hassle of managing campaigns, negotiations, ad creative, reporting, and payments across multiple publishers. We vet every newsletter by analyzing their email data to determine audience quality, ICP match, engagement, and ad results so you can confidently buy ads that drive ROAS. At GrowLetter, we know how to find the best publishers in the world. I’ve worked with the largest and fastest-growing newsletter-first media companies and creators over the past 5 years. (Clients include: The Hustle, 1440, James Clear, Codie Sanchez, Sahil Bloom, Milk Road, Chartr, The Daily Upside, The Rundown, WorkWeek, and many more.) We have more newsletter data than almost anyone. This allows us to help Marketers: - Manage your ENTIRE newsletter advertising campaigns from A to Z – while increasing your ROAS and saving you time. - Buy across many niches, small newsletters with 10k-50k subscribers that most Marketers don’t have time to handle. - Buy exclusive inventory in hard-to-reach newsletters with big, engaged audiences. Sound interesting? Here’s how to get started: - Newsletter operators, apply for us to sell your ads using the link below. - Newsletter advertisers, use that same link to get in touch and talk with me about improving your ROAS and saving time. If you have questions about this, reply below! P.S. We’re specializing in B2B, business, and financial publishers and advertisers right now. If that’s you, get in touch. If not, we can still help! We’ll just have fewer ads for you now. Use the link to get started below.👇

@beehiiv Tricycle Day

reply with the title of your newsletter and we'll tell you what it should be for halloween👇

@Steele_Jared Yes, DMing you

So instagram just banned our account. We have some stuff airing on national tv & trying to get it recovered before then (nov 8th). Anyone here that can help with that/know someone?

@tclarkmedia This is a more useful measure of vitality than HRV

I feel like I’ve been through 27 rotations of “it’s so over” to “we’re so back” cycle this week alone. Never a dull day.

@KintuLabs mariaslist.co

Who’s built a directory? Share the URL below 👇 I’ll add the best ones to the Directory Builders site over the weekend.

[5-min read] Study estimates 5 million Americans would benefit from psilocybin. tricycleday.com/p/doctors-get-… via @henrywinfast

@tasha032218 When I was 15, I emailed the address on the back of my favorite snack served in my high school cafeteria. I addressed the letter to the snack itself (Clodhoppers), not the company, and god bless the customer service rep who actually played along for a good 4 or 5 emails.

@jomo137 The show must go on

Viva la underground, I guess?

@danielcberk You *get* to go to trial. It’s all about perspective!

Yo the DOJ is charging Boeing with criminal fraud and I’m currently sitting on a Boeing flight Do I have to go to trial as well yes or no

@beehiiv This gif is exhausted and deserves a raise

rumor has it something big is going to drop tomorrow *queues the gif*

@jomo137 Hamilton. Joël and Victoria from Tandava.

Who are some of the best voices in the bufo alvarius conservation movement?