to your health

The FDA still doesn’t trust women.

From Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution: “The FDA has a long history of antipathy towards personal testing. The FDA has opposed personal pregnancy tests, HIV tests, genetic tests, and COVID tests, as I discussed in my article Testing Freedom. Well, […]

to your health

The connection between stress and disease.

“Dr. Gabor Maté is the leading expert on the role the mind-body connection plays in illness and health.” A line that he repeats a few times during this talk stuck with me: “We are biopsychosocial creatures.” Biology, psychology and socio-environmental […]

better doing

Taxonomy of procrastination.

Using an entertaining analogy, this author writes a useful note for those of us who procrastinate (all of us?). “My mental model is: Inside my head there’s a guy named Jim. When I decide I want to do something, Jim […]

tech, startups, internet

Why chatbots are not the future.

“When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I […]