This is the article to amplify this week.
“Long COVID confirmed a difficult reality: modern healthcare systems are optimized for diseases that can be rapidly diagnosed, categorized, and treated — not illnesses that require uncertainty tolerance, longitudinal care, and deep listening.”
Long COVID Changed Everything https://t.co/oo6pNxyR1q
✨⏪TEAM 53 REWIND⏪✨
A season for the record books ✍️
TEAM 53 BY THE NUMBERS 📊
Program single-season record + WAC-leading 59 home runs 💣
No. 2 in program history with 272 RBI 🔥
No. 3 in program history with 309 runs scored 🏃♀️
No. 3 in program history with 660 total bases 💪
No. 4 in program history with 74 doubles ✌️
#BuckEm🐎
STOP wasting time on circus gimmicks for “balance” training.
Bosu balls, wobble boards, and band tricks look cool on Instagram but do almost nothing for real game-contact stability
In sport, forces come from opponents while your feet interact with a stable ground
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Here’s what actually builds usable stability, coordination, and reactive power instead👇
Excited to share our study by @keylas3 et al. on pathological autoantibodies in people with Long COVID. We asked whether IgG in patients with Long COVID bind to human tissues/antigens and cause pathologies when transferred into mice. With @PutrinoLab
https://t.co/tcowCufWyf
Yeah, that happened 😤⬇️
Gaels shock the world and take down No. 1 UCLA for its first win over a top ranked team in program history! 🙌
#GaelsRise@NCAABaseball@d1baseball
✨⏪TEAM 53 REWIND⏪✨
PC’s NUMBERS
Tied the program single-season home run record with 14 HRs 💥
No. 3 in program history for single-season runs scored (45) 🏃♀️
#BuckEm🐎
‼️ This needed to be stated on record: autonomic dysfunction (aka #dysautonomia) is a key feature of h #EDS and other complex disorders with chronic fatigue. ‼️
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JPMorgan hired four autistic employees in 2015 as a small test. Six months later, those four were 48% faster than colleagues who'd been doing the same job for three to ten years. In some roles, they were 90 to 140% more productive.
That small test grew into a global program. Today JPMorgan's autism hiring program spans 10 countries and over 70 different job types, with hundreds of people hired through it and 99% staying long-term. Other companies have been doing the same thing, some for longer.
SAP (the German business software giant) started even earlier, back in 2013. They now have 215 autistic employees across 15 countries. One of them rebuilt how the company processes its giant credit card statements (think American Express, 20,000 line items per bill). What used to take 2 or 3 days now takes 20 minutes. 94% of these hires stay.
EY (the consulting giant) started its own program in 2016, focused on automation and data analysis. The team has grown to over 500 people across 23 offices in 10 countries. EY says the tools they've built have saved or made the company close to $1 billion. 92% retention.
Hewlett Packard tried the same idea in Australia, on software testing teams. Same result: 30% more productive than the rest. Microsoft, 10 years into its own program, reports the same kind of gains across its teams.
There's a biological reason. Harvard Business Review and JPMorgan's internal data both point to it. Autistic brains tend to use more of their processing power for visual analysis and pattern recognition. Picture spotting one small bug buried inside millions of lines of code. Less mental energy goes to social cues and impulse control. Add hyperfocus, the ability to lock onto one task for hours without losing attention, and you get a brain built for software, fraud detection, and AI.
85% of autistic adults with college degrees can't find a job. The general US rate is 4.3%. A huge pool of qualified people sitting unemployed, while the handful of companies that figured out how to hire them are getting double-digit productivity gains.
Palantir's new fellowship lands right in that gap. Pay: $110K to $200K plus stock. Over 2,000 applications came in for the first round, and CEO Alex Karp does the final interviews himself. No formal diagnosis required. Karp's own words: "the neurally divergent (like myself) will disproportionately shape America's future."
Reads like marketing copy. 10 years of data from SAP, JPMorgan, Microsoft, EY, and HPE suggest the bigger story is hiring strategy.