Pavel Sokolovsky

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fun facts · Apr 2024

Fit over 40.

“I found a guy who goes around Miami asking insanely fit people over 40: • What they eat • What workouts they do • What supplements they take. Here are my top 8” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2024

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically).

“So you’ve heard about how fish aren’t a monophyletic group? You’ve heard about carcinization, the process by which ocean arthropods convergently evolve into crabs? You say you get it now? Sit down. Sit down. Shut up. Listen. You don’t know nothing yet. “Trees” are not a coherent phylogenetic category. On the evolutionary tree of plants, trees are regularly interspersed with things that are absolutely, 100% not trees.” ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2024

Mark Zuckerberg interview where he comes off quite likable.

With podcast host Dwarkesh Patel, he discusses Llama 3 (and 4) and the how regulations around energy production could become the rate-limiter for AI because data centers are power hungry. ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2024

Compounding until inflection.

A tale of two startup biotechs strategies. “All value comes from clinical products. But it’s only possible to build a generational biotech company with a foundational technology platform capable of developing multiple products.” ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2024

AI-enabled services are opening a whole new market.

“Compared to software businesses, services performed by humans tend to be low margin, hard to scale exponentially, lumpy in revenue, etc. etc. There are many cautionary tales. But change is afoot… hastened by AI, cracking open new, huge opportunities for founders brave enough to go against the tired wisdom.” ~ learn more

better doing · Apr 2024

How to speak more confidently and persuasively.

This is an interesting interview with Matt Abrahams, who teaches a class on strategic communication at Stanford. I liked this framework because it’s easy to remember: “What? So What? Now What?” ~ learn more

better doing · Apr 2024

A word to the resourceful.

One of Paul Graham’s essays from 2012: “A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying.” ~ learn more

better doing · Apr 2024

Lindley’s paradox.

On null effects in science. “What's more convincing? p = 0.04 in a sample of 10 or p = 0.04 in a sample of 1,000,000?” ~ learn more

to your health · Apr 2024

How Veradigm (fka Allscripts) is making a huge bet on AI.

“Now interim CEO Yin Ho has an audacious plan to use the $140 million acquisition of AI startup ScienceIO to tap into its one major competitive advantage over giants like Epic: data.” ~ learn more