“One emerging treatment for diabetes involves converting stem cells into beta cells that secrete insulin. Now scientists have developed a more efficient method, and implanting these cells in diabetic mice functionally cured them of the disease.” | learn more
Especially interesting: “Today, more than half of Walmart’s top-spending families are Amazon Prime members, according to sources.” | learn more
In 2019 they used a first-come, first-served hiring policy in their warehouse. The result was a 60% decrease in monthly turnover. They’re rolling out the hiring policy to their retail stores this summer. | learn more
This is the guy who pioneered research into human bias and is considered a father of behavioral economics. Now that bias is the talk of the town, he’s focused on another decision-making problem: noise. | learn more
Rolled up into one page, this is a series of tweets by Gurwinder Bhogal describing important concepts with few words. Examples of concepts: causal reductionism, emergence, survivorship bias, concept creep, and streetlight effect (pictured above). | learn more
Lambda School is a startup programming school that uses income sharing agreements to tie tuition payments to students’ income (no income = no tuition). That leaves ‘accounts receivable’ stretching out for years, so they sell it off to outside investors […]
In this 2015 article, investor Jerry Neumann walks us through Carlota Perez’s framework on technological revolutions. “The wave that we are currently in, the Information and Communications Technology Revolution, started around 1971.” If we’re truly on the back-half of the […]
The once-powerful (and now former) Cook County Assessor earned the fines from the county ethics board for illegal campaign contributions. He sued to claim the ethics board had no right to make the rules he broke, but the judge dismissed […]
“Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin generated and saved every possible melody to a hard drive, then turned it back around to the commons.” They hope to stop copyright lawsuits against artists. | learn more
I get why they’d have a strong preference here, but I’m surprised they have control at all. I mean – iPhones are everywhere! If any readers know the nuances here and care to educate me, I’m ready to listen. | learn more