Neema Moraveji

I love creating products.
Alum: @StanfordHCI @ycombi @UofMaryland @CMUhcii
Founder, Spire Health (acquired by Wellinks)
Founder, Stanford Calming Tech Lab

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@the2ndfloorguy This is awesome. Reminds me of what we did. Add your photos and location as context too. https://t.co/eaoGLu5nU3

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@steipete Thank you @steipete! Idea/Request: Tiny status indicator showing current agent activity. Would let me multi-task calmly.

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

“Success” is a double-edged sword.

Brian talks about considering what you want to *do* - not who you want to *be*. The work, not the title. The impact, not the compensation.

It took me a roundabout way to get there - but I’m glad to be home.

[Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag]

Brian Chesky shares why the saddest day of his life happened the day after Airbnb went public at $100B:

"We go public, we have a hundred billion dollar valuation. It's one of the best days of my life. The next day, I go on a Zoom meeting, and it was like it never happened."

"It became like the saddest day of my life. Because I realized, I got all this adulation, and I don't feel any different."

"Adulation is like a cup with a hole at the bottom. You keep filling it in, thinking it's love, except it just keeps coming out the bottom."

"That made me reevaluate what I'm doing this for. I want to do things for pure intrinsic reasons. Do the work like you used to do, like when you were a kid. It was light. Just make stuff. Make it for yourself."

"So many entrepreneurs focus on what they want to be. "I want to be a giant tech founder. I want to run a billion-dollar company." Instead of focusing on, "What do I want to make."

There's no way to fail if you're making what you love."

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@trevin Looking forward to this! Thanks

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@gjordan @AnthropicAI @felixrieseberg FYI I tried to run it in a different Cowork task and it wouldn't run there. So it still needs some playing around with.

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@gjordan @AnthropicAI @felixrieseberg Yeah I just got it too.

I had Claude write the skill manually and it seems to have worked. It used the skill I had it make (with the _tmp suffix) to send a slack DM to me 5min in the future.

I've got a few agents I'm going to instruct to use this until Ant releases it.

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

Today we’re announcing our new Mentava Basics curriculum, aimed at kids who are still a bit too young for the standard Mentava curriculum.

Here’s what people don’t understand about teaching a 2 or 3 year old to read: 

The necessary skills for reading don’t all develop at the same time.

The ability to associate letters with sounds happens first, and at a pretty early age. If you think about it, learning “this funny shaped animal says moo” is pretty similar to learning “this funny shaped line says aaa.”

However, the second necessary skill for reading is blending those letter sounds together, and kids often aren’t developmentally capable of doing that until at least 6-12 months later.

Until today, our recommendation has been to wait until the child is developmentally ready to blend sounds. and then we just go full speed and teach them everything all at once, as fast as possible.

But sometimes we have students who start a little younger. And then their parents are confused, because they see that their kids are having a ton of fun learning letter sounds super fast, but then are being gatekept from additional learning because they aren't yet developmentally ready to blend those sounds.

That’s why we created the new Mentava Basics curriculum. Mentava Basics lets our youngest students focus on letter/sound pairings until they're developmentally ready to begin blending them.

Mentava Basics takes the fun and delight of the core Mentava experience, but applies it to a curriculum that’s developmentally appropriate for even younger children. Mentava’s standard curriculum is still the fastest way to go from zero to reading, but with Mentava Basics now we can give kids a head start by helping them learn their letter sounds in advance.

If your child is struggling with blending and you think it may just be a developmental readiness issue, you can use the grownup menu to switch into the Mentava Basics curriculum. We save your progress on both pathways, so you can switch back to our standard curriculum whenever you want.

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

#NeurIPS2024 is happening this week in Vancouver! This amazing visualization lets you explore the hundreds of conference posters.

Suggestion: Hovering is slow—when zoomed, displaying keywords (e.g., PCA clusters) could make browsing easier. Check it out: https://t.co/0ItMPiqPX4

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

Just got the Bay Area tsunami warning but, based on the map, this kind of tsunami seems more likely where we are.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Clouds look like incoming tsunami

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

LLMs still can't plan.
Llama-3.1-405b and Claude can plan a bit on Blocksworld.
GPT4 and Gemini not so much.
Performance is abysmal for everyone on Mystery Blocksworld.

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

How it started vs. How it's going

[John Lynn @techguy]

Join Aashish Mody at #ViVE24 as he highlights @SpireHealth 's groundbreaking approach to patient monitoring. With a device that requires no charging and can be worn continuously, Spire Health is transforming patient care, reducing hospitalizations, and improving outcomes for both patients and providers. #HealthcareInnovation #PatientMonitoring

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@Jak4all @spire_health Sounds interesting, Jak. Though we focus a lot on predicting and escalating acute physiologic deterioration, we do leverage our stress reduction roots in our service. Please msg me at [email protected].

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

@Jak4all @spire_health Hi Jak, I don't have links to publicly available resources from risk-bearing entities here, but my experience with such orgs indicates they are interested in preventative services that anticipate and intervene on acute deterioration, regardless of condition.

[Spire Health @spire_health]

When thinking of #COPD, older men who were chronic smokers often come to mind. However, what might be surprising is more women are being diagnosed with the condition.

This #COPDMonth, stay up to date on lung health & certain conditions that affect women: https://t.co/yL8M5lRx4s

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

I'll be doing a COVID-themed guided meditation for UX professionals tomorrow.

[UXPA International @UXPA_Int]

This week's webinar is: A Guided Reflection for UX Professionals. This 30 minute special webinar may be just what you need. https://t.co/EUBB7clh4v #ux #meditation #calm #quarantine #uxchat

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

First-known study to uncover the #breathing of #COPD patients at an unparalleled level of precision and timescale.
Made possible via Health Tags from Spire Health and a collaboration with researchers at ResMed. https://t.co/kCst0iDVry

[Neema Moraveji @moraveji]

Have you heard of COPD?
You know, the *3rd leading cause of death* in the US (and set to grow quickly)?

Beyond exercise, take the time to get to know the force that moves your lungs, brain, and heart – your breath. https://t.co/bpM6LFqVYu