#483 – Julia Shaw: Criminal Psychology of Murder, Serial Killers, Memory & Sex

The following is a conversation with Julia Shaw, a criminal psychologist who has written extensively on a wide variety of topics that explore human nature, including psychopathy, violent crime, psychology of evil, police interrogation, false memory manipulation, deception detection, and human sexuality. Her books include Evil, about the psychology of murder and sadism, The Memory Illusion, about false memories, Bi about bisexuality, and her new book that you should definitely go order now called Green Crime, which is a study of the dark underworld of poachers, illegal gold miners, corporate frauds, hit men, and all kinds of other environmental criminals. Julia is a brilliant and kindhearted person with whom I got the chance to have many great conversations with on and off the mic. This was an honor and a pleasure. And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. Check them out in the description or at lextreatment.com/sponsors. It is in fact the best way to support this podcast. We got Shopify for selling stuff online, BetterHelp for mental health, LMNT for electrolytes, and AG one for my daily multivitamin. Choose Wizen, my friends. And now onto the full ad reads. I try to make them interesting, but if you skip, please still check out the sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. To get in touch with me, for whatever reason, go to let'sstreamer.com/contact. Alright. Let's go. This episode is brought to you by Shopify, a platform designed for anyone to sell anywhere with a great looking online store. Obviously, it's an incredible platform for selling stuff, but, again, I will reiterate as I do often as we did in the DHH episode, what's also incredible is the implementation of the infrastructure, how the thing is built. The legendary well documented Black Friday, I believe, in 2021, Shopify handled 30 terabytes of data every minute. 32 plus million requests per minute hit the servers. 11,000,000 MySQL queries per second were processed. And all of that mostly Ruby on Rails. The very framework, the very programming language is not supposed to scale, and it did. And it did so incredibly well, seamlessly, and still maintain the beauty underlying that, implementation. There's this write up I recently read about how they were actually able to make that happen. There's so many interesting details, including the fact that as DHH talked about that it was a modular monolith, and it was scaled horizontally in these very interesting modular ways. Again, that's probably outside of the scope of, what I'm supposed to be doing here. Just another chance to celebrate the incredible engineering behind Shopify. And all of that to help you sell stuff. You can sign up for a $1 per month trial period at shopify.com/lex. That's all lowercase. Go to shopify.com/lex to take your business to the next level today. This episode is also brought to you by BetterHelp, spelled h e l p help. They figure out what you need and match you with a licensed …