i would believe this

one of the best books i’ve read in quite some time. it makes me wish i were a microbiologist and medical doctor both. there’s so much potential with engineering microbiomes! Ed Yong is not here

👀 that’s quite the subtitle

Social media has elevated people who are not of sound mind. They need to be admitted somewhere for treatment instead of entertaining an audience that will reinforce their psychosis.

Black Women photographed by Annie Leibovitz vs various Black photographers🧵

Tracy Chou 🌻 People don't fully appreciate the value of (1) reliably showing up, (2) not requiring constant prodding.

LLMs cannot “summarize” because they cannot understand anything

To be more AI resilient, develop better taste.

the vc groupthink leading investors to focus only on enterprise saas (vs consumer) is... astounding to witness

the two most valuable tech companies in the world are consumer companies. best to not forget that.

As a VC, should you spend more or less time with your struggling companies? It's an age old debate. I heard an LP on a recent podcast state they wanted their GPs to only spend time with their 'Tier 1 & Tier 2' companies. A founder I know well confided to me his lead VC told him…

leftover thank you card from my phd admit day visits literally 14 years ago taking on new duty as pinhole camera for nyc partial solar eclipse

it's Good Friday, which means it's time to share my favourite tumblr post of all time

Lawmakers share a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a registry of data brokers, let consumers opt out of some data collection, more (Orion Donovan Smith / Spokesman)

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i am still not very good at using chatgpt and its ilk but so far my takeaways are it’s not bad when
- a vague outline of a good enough answer is fine (eg travel suggestions)
- it’s something that is easy to verify correctness (eg NOT complex coding tasks but maybe css)

could have done without the hail on the 10k course today

I have to say…NYC earthquake Twitter is so much better than LA earthquake Twitter.