I can’t do justice to this article with a summary. If you only read one this week, let this be it. It explores this idea: “how do we get to a future where everything grows on trees?” | learn more
The language is casual, but the ideas and reasoning are sharp. “It’s no secret that school sux. It’s not that tutoring is good, it’s that mechanized schooling is really bad. If we got rid of formal 20th century K-12 education, […]
“A few weeks ago the White House hosted a conference on hunger, nutrition and health. One of the key organizers of the conference — Dariush Mozaffarian, Dean of the Tufts School of Nutrition — had just finished spending 3 years […]
“For people who have lost their sense of smell, a neuroprosthetic could replace biology with technology. An e-nose sensor would detect odors, a processor would send signals to an implanted receiver, and an implanted electrode array would stimulate the olfactory […]
“The device works by tackling oxidative stress that impacts on follicles, with the result being thicker and denser hair coverage than what is possible through commonly used treatments.” | learn more
Congratulations, Cheryl! “[Her] mission was to give parents a head start in preventing gut imbalances in their babies’ critical first 1,000 days of gut development, during which eczema, allergies, asthma, obesity and other chronic diseases may form.” | learn more
“Deregulated device types show increases in entry, innovation, as measured by patents and patent quality, and decreases in prices. Safety is either negligibly affected or, in the case of products that come under potential litigation, increased.” | learn more
“In the mid-2000s, many startups invested their excess cash reserves in instruments called Auction Rate Securities. ARS produced a steady stream of interest payments, like savings accounts, with a higher return.” It seemed great, until it wasn’t anymore. | learn more
Elad Gil: “Every tech wave results in a different split of startup vs incumbent value.” | learn more
Basecamp cofounder takes a bite out of his unprofitable competitors in this recent blog post. “The venture capitalists who invested in Asana, Monday.com, and Smartsheet surely all made out like bandits when these unprofitable software companies went public. Now every […]