big ideas

Lunar operations.

“It could look something like this: in partnership with the US government, a private company — let’s call it Regolift MegaCorp — sends fuel-cell powered, tele-operated robots to the lunar poles to mine their icy regolith. There, they separate the […]

thoughts of food

The man behind the world’s hottest pepper.

“Everybody thinks peppers are hot. There is no actual heat in peppers. … It cannot burn a hole in your esophagus. It can’t destroy your taste buds. It can’t hurt your stomach. It doesn’t cause ulcers. Nothing can happen to […]

to your health

Who counts as a doctor?

California’s new law says only physicians and surgeons can call themselves Dr. “Plaintiffs [who all hold Doctorate of Nursing (DNP) Practice degrees] claim state is criminalizing speaking the truth about their earned advanced degrees.” Meanwhile in California, nutritionist is not […]

better doing

When forming a new habit, consider not starting small.

“The ‘tiny habits’ theory works by drastically reducing the amount of effort. It takes a lot of effort to do a whole strength-training routine, so that’s a high barrier. Makes sense to reduce it. The problem is that you’re often […]

tech, startups, internet

The low budget startup.

Indie draws parallels between low budget movies and low budget startups. A quote from producer Jason Blum, who generated $193 million in box-office revenue on its $15k budget for Paranormal Activity: “The single biggest reason people don’t replicate the our […]

tech, startups, internet

Lawyers are getting their own AI chat apps.

The Silicon Valley law firm Gunderson Dettmer built their own internal app for using large language models in their practice. The most exciting “component is the ability of lawyers to query documents they provide using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a method […]

fun facts

Say my name, say mye naym.

Written by someone named Uri: “The truth is, I don’t care if people pronounce it [x] or [X]. (I don’t even really care if they call me [Y]). I have many lifelong friends who call me [x] and many who […]