14. The sky in a room
Rectorate's Courtyard, Turin

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an

'Stefanik and her Republican colleagues do not have any real interest in solving campus problems. Their goal is to expose liberal elites as corrupt, dangerous, and anti-American — and to paint themselves as heroes capable of bludgeoning these nefarious enemies into submission.'

As much as I love generative AI, setting it loose on a world w/ obscure rules + misaligned incentives & expecting it to be used for good in the short term...

Generative AI in Hospitals: A Promising Future, a Disappointing Present
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Narcissistic leaders are threatened by talent. They want to be the smartest person in the room.

Humble leaders are drawn to talent. They surround themselves with people who make them smarter.

Great leaders grow talent. They strive to make everyone in the room smarter.

The new diabetes review Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) (which showed that current digital diabetes tools do not deliver better outcomes) is another example of the 'Productivity Paradox of IT' – again showing that you need more than a digital tool to gain benefit. phti.com/assessment/dig… (1/2)

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On rounds at Grady

Me: 'How're you feeling today?'
Him: 'Well. I been better. That medicine y'all gave me made me run off!'

My team looked puzzled.
I did not.

Me: 'Oh no! You talking 'bout the medicine we gave you for your gout flare up?'
Him: 'Yeah! That one!'

Let’s go!!!!! Yale University

Early on in my life I always thought there was a “they” looking for cures across all diseases. Unfortunately I was wrong.

In my book I call it the Santa Claus theory of civilization: that for every problem in the world, there are surely people working diligently—in workshops

Love to turn this into NEW plastic and new cloths Stella McCartney LVMH. instead of using 10% of the World’s oil! Protein Evolution.

Love getting together with UCSF Health legend Bob Wachter and coauthor on HIT Design piece ushered by Ted Melnick Jessica Ray pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31265064/ can’t wait to read his new piece on AI with Julia Adler-Milstein in Jama jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Sometimes you gotta #taketheL

Congrats Yale School of Medicine students on #Match2024 #MatchDay 2024 #MatchDay and to all the Yale New Haven Hosp new residents!!!

It’s worth watching every second of this video exposing Katie Britt’s dishonesty

Peter Thiel believes talented people are not specialists.

Rather, they're almost always polymaths because they're naturally curious.

Curious about businesses, politics, science, history, poetry...or anything that impacts us as humans.

These are the people he seeks.

This LookDeep Health survey of prospective patients reveals many practical & unexpected insights on video + AI in the hospital.

It was surprising in some important ways. Here were a few that I latched on to.
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10 creative ads I've collected this week:

1. Iceland anti-drink driving

Many people (including docs) think of tests as yes/no. If you are infected, then the test should read Pos and if uninfected then it should read Neg.

But no test is so cut and dry - even the best HIV lab tests, which are remarkably sensitive)

for COVID, As Immunity builds and