to your health
Medical schools are starting to teach lifestyle principles.
This is news worth cheering for! “When students see patients begin to reverse their diabetes, it’s an eye-opener.” ~ learn more
better doing
“I’ve seen this before, it didn’t work.”
How should a founder process this sort of feedback? Neither by flatly dismissing it, nor by giving up because of it, but by doing the homework to understand why this time is different. “Each generation of founders comes back to […]
tech, startups, internet
Interview with NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang.
All of the AI tech we’re seeing is actually part of a sea change away from CPUs as the dominant computing platform and toward “Accelerated computing” platforms that the chipmaker offers. “For the very first time in the history of […]
tech, startups, internet
How did solar power get cheap?
“Solar went from the most expensive source of electricity in the 1950s to the least expensive source of electricity in the 2020s.” The root cause: hundreds of billions of dollars of both public and private investments. Those investments, first in […]
tech, startups, internet
OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman demos mind-blowing plugins.
Highly recommended. This is a TED talk + an impressive product demo + a strong Q&A. “After the talk, head of TED Chris Anderson joins Brockman to dig into the timeline of ChatGPT’s development and get Brockman’s take on the […]
oh, Austin
Bro-tastic party mansions in Austin.
Rising property values aren’t good for everyone, and gentrification has its downsides. There’s also the related trend of short-term rental businesses reducing long-term resident housing supply. This author is quite upset by the whole situation. He highlights many silly anecdotes […]
oh, chicago
Illinois lost 105k residents, $11 billion in income to other states in 2021.
“The massive decline in Illinois’ population was a direct result of losing residents to virtually every other state. On net, Illinois lost people to 45 of the 49 other states in the nation.” ~ learn more
fun facts
A tiny number of shoplifters commit a stunning amount of NYC’s thefts.
“Nearly a third of all shoplifting arrests in New York City last year involved just 327 people, the police said. Collectively, they were arrested and rearrested more than 6,000 times, Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.” ~ learn more
fun facts
I didn’t know daylight savings time worked backwards in the southern hemisphere.
That means during the period when both the US and New Zealand are both on DST, the cumulative time difference is an extra 2 hours. ~ learn more
fun facts
How I knew a frog moved in next door.
There’s a construction project next to my home that’s currently a big hole in the ground. After some rain, it became a makeshift pond. Then a frog moved in. The frog made lots of loud noise all through the night. […]