“The conviction caps a stunning fall from grace for an old-school politician who wielded his power for decades as the head of the City Council’s Committee on Finance, which controls much of the city’s spending. … The 79-year-old Burke was convicted by a jury of 13 of 14…
This was a top notch discussion with Justin Ishbia of Shore Capital. They’ve deployed $7 billion of capital with an average transaction size of $12 million. It’s all down to the repeatable systems and tons of sports analogies by which to remember them. ~ learn more
This is an approachable explanation of a current frontier in medicine and what could become of it’s rise. “A little over a decade ago… For the first time, patients were cured of disease using genetically engineered cells as a medicine in their own right. If synthetic chemistry gave…
“Early this year, in an effort to improve production and ready the plant to manufacture Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhone 15, Foxconn dispatched more Chinese workers to Sunguvarchatram. Engineers like Li would get the India plant up to China speed.” ~ learn more
Todd Herman helped Kobe Bryant craft his alter ego, the Black Mamba. He is a performance coach who uses the tool of identity, “because your identity—the person or the view of yourself that’s going out to perform on that field—is where all of your habits, attitudes, behaviors, and…
Technologist David Heinemeier Hansson (known as DHH) is now a bit of a philosophy student as well. “Eric Fromm followed the same path of wisdom to additional insights. In The Pathology of Normalcy, he spells out exactly what makes modern man condemned: Getting everything he wanted while having…
“Several fashion retailers and e-commerce platforms are playing the blame game when it comes to Temu and Shein.” ~ learn more
The author of this post suggests this won’t really solve anything… “Amazon rarely changes referral fees, and reducing the fee by 70% for items in Shein’s key price segment is unquestionably a response to Shein. But even if fees were to go to zero, Amazon would still have…
“You might dismiss as mere gimmicks products from YouTube stars like MrBeast and Logan Paul—think Feastables snacks and Prime energy drinks, respectively. But billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen leans toward another view: that they represent the future of consumer-product relationships.” ~ learn more
The approach works by sampling proteins found only on the patient’s specific cancer cells and then prompting the bodies to make them to prime the immune system. “In 2022, they reported that the combo therapy reduced high-risk patients’ risk of recurrence or death by 44% compared to only…