https://t.co/cX2I6QLEKx via @Clyp_It Recent headlines on India inspired today's interview "with an excellent guest - Sree Vaid - who held our attention. Informative and thought-provoking." @sree_mukherjee_vaid Thank you Sree!
Since 1970, the number of physicians in the US has roughly doubled
The number of administrators has grown by more than 600%
Billing departments. Prior auth teams. Denial management units
These are among the fastest-growing features of American medicine. That is not progress.
Most Hindus do eat meat. Pandits and Brahmins eat meat in certain regions; it is part of their culture. Bengalis,Nepalis,Kashmiri Pandits, and Paharis eat meat, and it is often used in religious rituals or festivals. Not everyone follows Vaishnavism. Time to stop dicating people.
Dr. Russell Barkley, drawing from 20+ years of twin studies, behavior genetics, and neuroimaging: Parenting isn't engineering a blank slate—it's shepherding a unique genetic mosaic already loaded with 400+ psychological traits that emerge mostly on their own timetable.
You provide the pasture: safe, nourishing environments with adequate (not excessive) stimulation, protection from harm, and access to rich out-of-home influences (peers, schools, neighborhoods, community—the biggest shaper after genetics, per Judith Harris in The Nurture Assumption).
But you don't redesign the sheep. No prenatal Mozart, no overload of crib toys turns threshold development into engineered genius. Extra stimulation past basics yields diminishing returns; "more is better" is a cultural illusion, not biology.
Data is stark: Parental influence on core traits peaks before 7, plummets to ~6% in teens, hits zero after 21. Knowledge transfers via exposure—yes. Personality, abilities, temperament? Largely genetics + broader world.
This frees parents from crushing guilt ("If my child struggles, I failed"). Instead: Curate wisely, then enjoy watching the individual unfold. Open the Chardonnay, kick back—the show is brief.
Short of abuse/neglect/malnutrition, in-home tweaks are often trivial next to where you choose to live and the doors it opens.
Shepherd, not engineer. Let them grow into who they already are.
Does this shift relieve pressure—or challenge how you view "success" in raising kids?
For those mad that Bad Bunny will performing mostly Spanish at halftime and won’t understand, we’ve been listening to Pearl Jam for years and still don’t know what Eddie Vedder is saying
Papa Francisco: “Con Satanás no se puede dialogar ni negociar. El diablo no es algo difuso, es una persona con nombre y apellido. Hay que enfrentarlo y echarlo, no hay otra opción”.
Steve Bannon — who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein to “take down” Pope Francis — warned that the election of the man who would become Pope Leo XIV would be his worst nightmare.
Bannon lost. The world won.