Sacha

No longer using Twitter

[Sacha @sachaker]

YES it took me 6 months and NO i don't regret it

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My first interview with @sachaker, Founder & CEO of Babylon Biosciences.

Babylon is on a quest to cure Alzheimer’s.

1:00 History of Alzheimer’s research
8:09 Why tackle this problem
12:22 Axon degeneration
13:57 Structuring Babylon to survive many failures
15:24 Self-financing Alzheimer’s moonshots
19:01 Viagra
19:59 Swanson linking and Raynaud syndrome
24:16 Most efficacious drugs for Alzheimer’s
27:29 Experience starting Babylon
31:34 Attracting mission aligned people
36:24 Filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries
41:07 Lack of agency causes burnout
46:02 Living without a phone to reduce distraction
49:31 Why the information to cure Alzheimer’s might already be out there
54:19 How AI changes things
55:36 Controversial science
1:03:11 Volunteering at memory clinics
1:04:28 Impact-per-dollar and being scrappy
1:07:55 Internalizing pain when you make a bad decision
1:09:26 Time to last embarrassment
1:10:51 Risk taking
1:12:57 What causes cognitive impairment
1:22:11 What keeps him up at night

[Sacha @sachaker]

@wolfejosh link to full clip?

[Sacha @sachaker]

@maggie_1i spent one afternoon freshman year of college and easily saved our lab months going through hundreds of scans.

it's honestly ridiculous

https://t.co/2YY4O0Mw3a

[Sacha @sachaker]

@asallen i think you're missing the fact that a familiar UI is an adoption tactic.

a nominal delta for a new platform makes it much easier to adopt (mentally and UX-wise)

[Sacha @sachaker]

@BrianJJi @osmosiposit @dieworkwear https://t.co/B1rsCtWUfz

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

@9erm4n1c take a submarine next time

[Sacha @sachaker]

@PagerPongMonke @rmcentush based

[Sacha @sachaker]

@rmcentush is there a strong argument to be made to resurrect the zeppelin as a means of transport of any kind?

[Sacha @sachaker]

@samuel_spitz don't you spend like 2hrs on Twitter a day?

[Sacha @sachaker]

@simonwwriter anything less than a *perfect* signature would not be acceptable. good luck.

[Sacha @sachaker]

@NikoMcCarty 🐐

[Sacha @sachaker]

@micsolana "more money" is too reductionist and you know that.

not saying he's right here, but not all ~money~ is equal. sounds like he's proposing that more money *as allocated specifically towards vouchers for Section 8 housing* would be a viable solution

[Sacha @sachaker]

@Rainmaker1973 so good it broke Twitter

[Sacha @sachaker]

@culturaltutor insane to see this in my feed this morning...

last night i saw perhaps the best transition i've ever seen in a graphic novel. the perfect homage.

[Sacha @sachaker]

@angelosgeo haven't read yet. thanks !

[Sacha @sachaker]

@willdepue scroll down and you'll find it:
https://t.co/XVxHlOv9I6

[Sacha @sachaker]

@zebulgar lol true

[Sacha @sachaker]

@j_stonemountain wiggling indeed mesmerizing. as in... how long can this wiggle without toppling