My favorite thing @om wrote was actually an interview with Brunello Cucinelli in 2015. And to this day, I think it’s the single best thing you can read on running a business. Better than any book, better than any article.
Read it:
https://t.co/Nq8cmtxILT
The medical community has cured a mountain of diseases in the past several decades.
Diseases cured thread🧵
In 2013, hepatitis C was cured by direct-acting antivirals.
"we couldn't do anything useful for citizens in my 14 years of office allocating 60 trillion USD. but if we can just steal from the rocket science electric car guy, then we can solve all your problems."
Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:
Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.
1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.
2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.
Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.
Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.
Getting answers isn’t always a straight path.
At VeDA, we’re here to help you navigate that process, with resources on symptoms, conditions, and how to find the right provider.
https://t.co/mFiqP90d0X
#vestibular#dizziness#veda#invisibleillness
@DrJesseMorse@alexsheppert They weren’t 10 years out. They had had symptoms for 10 years (patient reported I assume). Interested to see when they assessed the outcomes and whether they lasted
The Library of Alexandria created the first catalog of all human knowledge 2,300 years ago, and a team of fewer than 20 people just finished the modern version and made it free for the entire planet.
It is called OpenAlex. The name is not an accident.
The ancient library had the Pinakes, a catalog mapping every scroll, every author, every subject. When the library fell, the map of what humanity knew fell with it.
For the last two decades, that map existed again, but it was locked up.
Elsevier owns Scopus. Clarivate owns Web of Science. If your university could not afford the subscription, you could not see the structure of science itself. Entire countries were priced out of knowing what research existed.
OpenAlex indexes 474 million scholarly works. Every author disambiguated. Every citation traced. Every institution and funder connected. It updates with roughly 50,000 new works every day.
The whole thing is CC0. Not just free to search. Free to download, copy, sell, and build on. The API allows 100,000 requests a day without an account.
The ancient library burned and the catalog was lost for two millennia.
The new one cannot burn. Anyone can hold a copy.
https://t.co/peUYYpucnc
SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. We’ve been able to expand that mission with our Starlink constellation and AI solution
Learn more → https://t.co/PSCyWrMUYI
Remember the bird autist? His name is Samuel. He’s 11. And good news! Everyone loves him, respects him, he’s won the acknowledgement of his peers, and everything wonderful is going for him. An actual feel good story with no twists. Just winning. 👏🏼❤️
NEW podcast episode is up!
"Tim’s Founder Kitchen — From Brainstorm to The President’s Office in Two Months (Featuring Jake Becraft, Strand Therapeutics)"
This episode is an experiment!
I'm trying out a new format: half interview, half live jam session. I've started a new series, working title "Tim's Founder Kitchen," built around actual brainstorming sessions with founders willing to share the audio.
This first instalment is with Jake Becraft of Strand Therapeutics. @DrSynbio is the CEO and co-founder of @StrandTx, a clinical-stage biotechnology company with a pipeline of breakthrough mRNA therapeutics for cancers and autoimmune diseases.
Let me know by replying here what you think of this experiment and how I can make the series better.
Please enjoy!
Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own
*New Lecture*
Stanford @CS153Systems '26, Session 8
The Compute Behind Intelligence with Jensen Huang from @nvidia
full link in comment - this clip is just the one where he talks about tomatoes