This great news brought to you by a journalist who “collected and compiled big-city crime data as a way to assemble a more real-time picture of national murder trends.” His research points to lower murder rates across the country. ~ learn more
A very well-rounded update from the (bullish and biased) heavy hitters of Bitcoin mining. “I hosted a conference on bitcoin mining yesterday. Speakers included CEOs and leaders of the most successful mining companies in the industry. … Below you will […]
Jamie Wong, a “Software engineer learning about climate tech”, wrote this primer on Carbon Dioxide Removal and the industry forming around it. He discusses the various startups working on pulling carbon out of the air and storing it somewhere permanent, […]
The biggest YouTuber in the world launched a virtual burger brand during the pandemic selling Beast Burgers from 2,000 ghost kitchen locations. Now he’s “moving on” from the brand. He would prefer to turn it off altogether, “But the company […]
“The result showed that the babies who had received their mother’s microbiota from their mother’s vaginal fluids showed more of that bacteria in their gut, suggesting that the method of seeding used by the researchers effectively reached and colonized the […]
I just finished a book about expectations and their potent effects (including the placebo effect) so this is timely reinforcement for me. With 347 study participants, “The study found that, at six weeks, participants who received opioids didn’t have better […]
“[Ross and Hugo Turner] monitored their bodies over a three month fitness challenge to understand if training twice as much offered twice the results.” ~ learn more
“Too often I see someone who is responsible for accomplishing an important goal doing the best they can in the face of immense odds. It may sound counterintuitive, but the mandate of such a job is not to “do the […]
Reading this hurt me a bit and sharing it hurts even more because I’ve struggled to make time to keep up my book takeaways the past couple years. For most books I only have rough notes written way-too-long after reading. This post […]
“In my opinion, the creator economy thesis fell apart because investors had a fundamental misunderstanding of what risks they were underwriting. They didn’t understand the media industry, they didn’t understand creators’ needs, and they totally missed that this was a […]