A ton of good advice for students in here. “Signaling is the only good reason to go. Still, once you’re on campus, you might as well make the most of it. I’ve been in college non-stop for the last 33 years, and […]
“The result is a dense, chewy, doughy interior with a browned and sometimes crisp exterior.” | learn more
This is like science fiction. Lob the right sound frequency at stem cells and they turn to bone. “We can use the sound waves to apply just the right amount of pressure in the right places to the stem cells, […]
Preliminary results of the study, “show the algorithm’s projected accuracy is about 82 percent with a false positive rate of 11 percent over a 14-day period.” This is one of a few groups working on early detection with wearables. What […]
“People, People, People. They are what matters. You can start something incredible with the wrong people and fail or start an average idea with the right people and win.” | learn more
“Think for a minute about your friendships. Some friends you would text with any silly thought; others you only call a couple of times a year. Some are people you look up to; others you like, but do not especially […]
This statistic was a strong opener to the article. “We’re filling our lives with so much junk that the U.S. now has more self-storage facilities than McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger Kings, Starbucks and Walmarts combined. That’s around 50,000 storage complexes.” | learn more
Jason Cohen doesn’t think exponential growth is a thing. He offers an alternative model that better fits a variety of growth data from hypergrowth products and companies. Lots of great charts to make a strong semantic point. | learn more
“Hyman Minsky was a 20th-century economist whose ‘financial instability hypothesis’ is probably the best-known explanation for the boom and bust cycles that characterize public financial markets. … We’re currently in the midst of an unprecedented boom in private market activity. […]
“Advanced techniques are applied to study patterns of growth, failure, value evolution, and performance.” This form of analysis has proven valuable across multiple classes of investments. The pace of VC deals nowadays might provide enough data to apply the approach […]