“There’s a pattern in fake scammy alternative medicine. People get excited about some new herb. They invent a laundry list of effects: it improves heart health, softens menopause, increases energy, deepens sleep, clears up your skin. This is how you know it’s a fraud.” … but also … “But I don’t believe it’s all pharma marketing. These drugs seem really special. We’re going to have an exciting next few years…
Jared Dashevsky is an MD and publisher of the Healthcare Huddle industry newsletter. I’ve been a reader since years ago when he hated consumer CGM usage. Glad to see he’s now a fan of Nutrisense! ~ learn more
The author of this post was super into habits (a la James Clear’s Atomic Habits) until he had some sort of breakdown and now think it’s done him more harm than good. My hot take is that he was way out on the fringe of optimization and his advice does not generalize. If I could generalize my response it’d be that you will develop and stick to habits whether you…
Aaron Renn grew up in southern Indiana, went to Indiana University, moved to Chicago to eventually become a managing director at Accenture, and now believes he screwed up royally at the very start. He thinks he should’ve gone to Harvard (where he didn’t apply). This was very thought provoking, especially paired with the link about college admissions consulting below. I personally have yet to regret skipping Harvard (I also didn’t…
“This is the condensed version of the "Fireside Chat: With Ilya Sutskever and Jensen Huang: AI Today and Vision of the Future (March 2023)"” ~ learn more
“In other words, the billions that AWS spent on building data centers is a lasting defense. The billions that OpenAI spent on building prior versions of GPT is not, because better versions of it are already available for free on Github.” ~ learn more
This 7th annual report by Nathan Benaich of Air Street Capital is as educational as ever. It’s also available as a condensed blog post and video. ~ learn more
One of the comments on Youtube for this interview is “Feels like you need a security clearance for this episode”. I absolutely loved this discussion between Semianalysis publisher Dylan Patel, Asianometry creator Jon Y, and podcaster Dwarkesh Patel. Highly recommended. ~ learn more
“Of all the cognitive tools our ancestors left us, what’s best? Society seems to think pretty highly of arithmetic. It’s one of the first things we learn as children. So I think it’s weird that only a tiny percentage of people seem to know how to actually use arithmetic. Or maybe even understand what arithmetic is for. Why?” ~ learn more
I don’t want to overstate it, but it does seem like the inability to build important infrastructure is a pattern in the United States. “The Coast Guard has handled all U.S. icebreaking since 1966, and estimates that it needs 8-9 polar icebreakers (4-5 heavy and 4-5 medium) to fulfill its needs. But it currently has only two: the heavy icebreaker Polar Star, and the medium icebreaker Healy. The U.S. hasn’t…