Barrett Tenbarge

Life Sciences at Faegre Drinker. Former General Counsel, Senate HELP Committee. Proud Hoosier, now life sciences attorney. Personal account - views are my own.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

This is an amazing quote from Lindsey Graham about when he realized how politics works. https://t.co/sh04ahQOFq

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

We're going back to the fucking moon, that's why.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Offhand —

* Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case.
* Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet).
* Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such).
* 180 on many issues around BLM.
* Lack of effective response from science funding bodies.
* Denial of aerosolized transmission.
* Changing of trial readouts so that they’d occur after the election. (Confirmed to me by senior OWS officials.)
* Crazy criteria for vaccine distribution.
* Adamant insistence on vaccine efficacy beyond what was supported by data.
* Almost complete lack of follow-through on OWS (on pan-variant vaccines).

I’m sure there are more, but those are the ones that stick out.

[Football @BostonConnr]

This run with the music

Chills

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@GainbridgeFH We have tickets for the Sunday morning show. Any update on the show in light of the weather?

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@bradloncar My email is [email protected]. Happy to send some recs by email, or give you a quick call to discuss. But biotech is exciting and growing in Indy (a large part of why I just moved back).

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@bradloncar Brad - Native Hoosier here who just moved to Indy, where I’m working for Faegre Drinker on FDA issues after working on FDA issues at Senate HELP. Tons of great options for biotech in Indy, and happy to connect you with others.

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@patrick_oshag 1. John Adams by David McCullough
2. Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
3. The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon Wood

Also, this Five Books post from Gordon Wood: https://t.co/e0ajMwiRsB

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@BarstoolIrish @buckedup Taking you, @Mandress13

[Kim Gold @kimberlygold]

This is a gift - not just for the lawyers who work with this partner, but for any law student or lawyer.

[CBS Sports College Football 🏈 @CBSSportsCFB]

First-year @IndianaFootball head coach Curt Cignetti is on a mission to change the culture at IU.

After a 4-0 start to the season, Cignetti penned a letter to students and fans, asking them to be loud and proud in the stands for all four quarters.

Now, the Hoosiers are 9-0 and strong contenders for a College Football Playoff spot.

[FOX College Football @CFBONFOX]

🗣️ "IU! AMERICA, THEY'VE GOT A FOOTBALL TEAM NOW! AND THEY CAN PLAY!"

Gus Johnson was fired up after that @IndianaFootball interception 🔥🎙️

[Robert Nelsen @rtnarch]

Maybe someday, Bernie Sanders will acknowledge the amazing medicines created by American innovation, like KARXT for schizophrenia, approved today. Will have a profound impact on mental disorders, many which you see every day in cities when you walk outside.

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

Quite relevant to private legal practice. I remember being astonished (in a good way!) at the quality of work product that very senior partners could create when they needed to dig into that level of detail, though they spend most of their time delegating and editing.

[Pedro Franceschi @pedroh96]

Switching to founder mode is the best thing I’ve done at Brex in many years. What it means for us in practice:

1) Having a single roadmap for the entire company, where I’m the editor of what ships in each release.

2) Eliminate people manager roles. Leaders must operate at all levels, just like founders.

3) Looking at every metric the most punitive way possible, removing all room for wishful thinking and surfacing the few things that truly matter.

Results: growth rate 2x faster vs a year ago, burn down 70% YoY, and my highest level of energy since I started the company.

And yes, also very inspired by a conversation with @bchesky too. Silicon Valley is healing. 🙏

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@bradford_hardin ⁃Biography of Charles de Gaulle. A Certain Idea of France by J. Jackson is a recent one that got great reviews.
⁃Boeing v. Airbus by Newhouse
⁃Taking Paris by Martin Dugard
⁃House of Rothschild by Ferguson (you might especially enjoy given the banking background).

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@lee_kovarsky The vast majority do it in a way that is entirely divorced from how FDA law is actually practiced: advising clients through written work product (mostly email, some memo) and orally. And that knowing the “rule” is a small fraction of the actual job.

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@lee_kovarsky In addition to the final, my students will regularly prepare emails advising clients asking them business questions related to substantive requirements and the related risks.

While law school may have classes that cover FDA’s regulation of drugs…

[Barrett Tenbarge @btenbarge]

@PeterKolchinsky @SenateHELP @NPLB_org It’s Finance jurisdiction, not HELP Committee.