Ford Smith

VC + Fixing the American Food System 🥕🥩🌱 Founder @ultranative & @centerforminds.

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We bringin it back @centerforminds

[Taylor Sterling @FatherMcKennaa]

The ancient Greeks made a psychedelic from toxic fungus, wood ash, & water — and served it to thousands every year for 2,000 years.

A paper published today in Nature showed how.

Plato drank this. Cicero drank this.

The Western world was built on a psychedelic sacrament.

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@autumntjohnson Good example of how agrivoltaics research is starting to shift the narrative on land use and food production 👍

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@vincenzosfhf Good to see tools like this being taken seriously. If it actually improves prevention, that’s where it really matters.

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@anyancy13 @BlansonCTEHS Love seeing students helping the next group find their footing. That kind of leadership makes a bigger difference than people realize. 🫶🏽

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@EricMMrozek Honestly, having Luke around more would make the transition feel a lot more natural.

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@RaviRandalJain Changes like this always come down to balancing system capacity with access to protection. Not an easy line to draw.

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@malayshaMH Honestly, the trying again part is what matters most. Nobody gets it right every time. 💛

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@MSadorf03 People rarely forget how a leader made them feel. Trust goes a lot further than control ever does.

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@_MengqiSun Activist pressure in healthcare adjacent businesses usually ends up surfacing operational inefficiencies pretty quickly. Curious how Chemed responds here.

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@jeffdornik Feels like people underestimate how hard it is to replace the human side of these roles. Even if the tech works, acceptance is a whole different story.

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@pbelesiotis Encouraging direction, but execution and safeguards will matter most.

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@ernesttheaiguy This is where AI actually earns its place, inside the workflow where clinicians feel the friction most.

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@YourAiDoctor @AskAwaDoc Nice to see AI tools being applied to streamline both clinical research and day to day medical queries. Practical utility is where it starts to matter most 👍

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@Berci Good to see this focused on practical use rather than hype. That’s usually what helps healthcare teams actually adopt AI in real workflows.

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@NaturalDrEccles Most systems still reward treating illness more than preventing it.

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@micarli8 Experience is definitely the differentiator in healthcare content. Audiences can usually tell when it’s grounded in real clinical context vs surface-level messaging.

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@manangemen41108 Good framing, but retirement resilience usually comes more from execution than lists of considerations. The sequencing matters as much as the strategy itself.

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@KarenHamiltonVA These issues tend to be more complex than a single policy cause.

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@MarkAttwood Smart distribution play. Being physically present where attention is already relaxed does a lot of the heavy lifting for you 👍

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@AmberPenner888 There’s usually a lot of clarity in that moment, but it’s still easy to mistake timing for certainty.

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@MichaelMAvatar Interesting way to frame it. Growth seems to come more from how we live day to day than from any single insight.