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[Arjun Karpur @arjunkarpur]

Nearly one year later, and Epsilon has provided care for over 300,000 patients. I couldn't be prouder of this team's accomplishments!

With this Series A funding, we're excited to scale up to millions of patients annually and make a significant dent in the radiologist shortage.

[SRK @SRKPhx]

@Abdullah_Om3r03 @cmkshama Heartbreaking.

[Abdullah Omar🇵🇸 @Abdullah_Om3r03]

“I'm hungry” — words spoken by a wounded child from Gaza lying in a hospital bed, telling a story of pain far greater than his years. 💔

[SRK @SRKPhx]

@asanwal @asanwal it’s a shame you’re suggesting that young people should lie in order to get into a ‘top school’ . What kind of ethics will this young person develop? Shame on their parents and counselors for encouraging unethical behavior as they learn to navigate adulthood.

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A woman was a Starbucks barista for 5 years, then spent 3 years at Starbucks corporate on the operations and product team.

She left in 2024. She still goes to Starbucks every single day.

She told me: "I stand in line and watch people spend $7 on a drink I make for $3.50 using the same ingredients. I watch them tap their credit card at the register and earn half the Stars they should be earning. I watch them order a Venti because they think bigger means more coffee it doesn't. I watch them use their birthday reward on a $3 drip coffee when it covers a $12 Venti with every add-on in the system. I watch them walk past the free refill they're entitled to because they don't know the policy exists."

"Starbucks is a $110 billion company. It makes its money on one simple principle: most customers don't understand the menu, the app, or the rewards system well enough to make the choices that save them money. The menu is designed to steer you toward the highest-margin drink. The app is designed to feel convenient while hiding the moves that lower your bill. And the rewards system is designed to feel rewarding while ensuring you spend more than you save unless you know how to flip it."

"I spend $3.50–$4.50 per visit. The person behind me spends $7 for the same caffeine. Same store. Same barista. Same espresso machine. The difference is I know how the system works."

Here are the 10 things she does that most Starbucks customers have never tried:

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[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Be humble. You could be wrong.
Be forgiving. You also make mistakes.
Be honest. Character is a door opener.
Be generous. Givers sleep better at night.
Be grateful. Luck seeks the thankful.
Be courageous. Not doing leads to regret.
Be yourself. You will be happier.
Always be kind.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

Don’t let your life 'narrow'.

I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years. The thing I watch happen to people — more than any injury or surgery — is what I call the narrowing.

Most of my patients have no idea it’s happening. They think it’s just aging. It’s not...

[XUnfiltered @XUnfiltere69061]

No matter what American white racists wants you to believe, Indians! please do not fall for it!! and don't let it shake your self confidence.

Indians make up just 1.5% of the US population which is around 5.1 million people.

But their impact is massive, share it with those basement dweller racists, whenever they throw a slur at you from their basement.

The Impact 👇

1. They contribute over 5-6% of the country's taxes ($250–300 billion annually) when they are just about 1% of total population.

2. 10% Of all US patents have an Indian inventor.

3. 10% of doctors are of Indian origin, serving nearly 30% of patients.

4. They own 60% of all hotels in the US.

5. 11% of US unicorns have an Indian founder.

6. 70% of US colleges have an Indian in top leadership.

7. 78% of Indians in the US have a college degree (vs. 36% national average).

8. Indian kids have won over 80% of Spelling Bees in the past 30+ years.

9. Even in food: Indian restaurants are just 1% of total, but 3% of Michelin-starred ones are Indian.

10. Plus, in 2023 alone, the Indian diaspora donated $1.5 billion to US causes and $800 million to India.

This is real soft power earned through hard work, education, and entrepreneurship.

But those basement dwellers high on conspiracies, blaming Indians for their miserable lives...will still stick to their delusion where all Indians are frauds, scammers and with fake degrees!!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Students go nuts after donor announces during his commencement speech that he is paying off all of their senior year debts.

Anil Kochhar and his wife decided to give the gift to all ~200 graduates in N.C. State's family.

Kochhar is the son of Prakash Chand Kochhar, an immigrant from India who studied textile manufacturing in Raleigh.

"My father found not just an education, but an opportunity that allowed him to build a life, support his family, and begin a legacy that continues today. And it will never stop, never," Kochhar said.

[Clara Gold @Clara_Gold]

6 months ago, I moved to San Francisco.
It’s the best place in the world to build, and one of the worst places to stay human. My unfiltered take:

1. SF is both overhyped and underrated

The overhyped part: there are a lot of people with incredible resumes who are deeply unimpressive in real life. They were at the right company, at the right time, in the right market, and got carried by the wave. They made money, got comfortable, and now spend their time “exploring opportunities” over coffee, wasting your time.
The underrated part: the top 1% here is insane. But almost impossible to get. Hiring in SF feels like being a guy on a dating app: everyone you want is out of your league, and everyone in your league wants someone out of theirs. The best people have unmatchable packages, endless options, and are optimizing for maximum impact: labs, frontier companies, or startups raising $100M pre-seed rounds.
If you raised $10M from Tier 1 investors, you’re not hot shit here. You’re a B-player. It’s humbling.

2. There are fewer mission-driven people than I expected

Especially on the application layer. A lot of people are in “secure the bag before it’s too late” mode. And honestly, it gives me the ick.
The real religious builders I’ve met are often in labs, hardware, biotech, deeptech, defense — places where the work is hard enough that you can’t fake obsession.

3. The status game favors builders

This is what SF does better than anywhere else. It rewards obsession. It rewards weirdness. It rewards people who make building their entire personality. Europe punishes that. SF gives it status. If you’ve felt like an outsider your whole life because you care too much, work too much, think too radically, or refuse to be chill about things that matter, this city will make you feel less insane.

4. The market liquidity is absurd

Even if you don’t build a billion-dollar company, if you manage to build a strong product with a great team, someone smart might still acquire you for $ 100M. Yeah I know, it’s not your dream outcome as a founder, but on the days you feel desperate, it helps to keep going.

5. SF does not care about the meaning crisis that’s coming

Anyone paying attention here can feel that something massive is happening with AI. But I’m shocked by how little people talk about the meaning crisis coming next. Everyone wants to talk about AI liberating humanity. Almost no one wants to talk about what happens when work — the thing that gives most people identity, structure, dignity, status, and purpose — starts disappearing. The vacuum will not be peaceful. People are underestimating the chaos that comes from humans suddenly having no idea why they matter. And I really feel like no one cares.

6. Personally, I’ve never been more unhappy

I moved to SF and entered the matrix. I’ve always been intense. I’ve always worked crazy hours. But here, I lost the last parts of myself that were not about building.
I don’t go to events. Most networking events feel like theater for people pretending to be important. The only events worth going to are small, curated dinners with people who are actually alive. I’ve made 0 real friends. I don’t do well with transactionality. I don’t do well with people constantly performing greatness. I don’t do well with rooms where everyone is optimizing and no one is being honest.

So yes, SF is lonely, transactional, delusional, addictive, inspiring, boring, extraordinary, and completely insane.
But it is still the only place to be right now if you’re a founder trying to build the next wave of humanity.

And for now, that’s enough.

[Robert Lufkin MD @robertlufkinmd]

Astronauts are older than ever.
The longevity revolution is happening in real time.
Older adults are redefining what's possible.
What a time to be alive.

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn.

Every time you log in, we search your computer.

Not metaphorically.

We run code that scans your installed software.

Every browser extension.

Every application.

We catalog it.

We transmit it to our servers.

We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of.

The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide.

We hid it off-screen.

You never consented.

We never asked.

Our privacy policy doesn't mention it.

That's networking.

We call the program Project Handshake internally.

The Slack channel is handshake-telem.

In 2024 we scanned for 461 products.

By February this year we scan for over 6,000.

I don't know what all of them are.

Nobody does.

Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims.

Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users.

Someone added 509 job search tools.

That last one is my favorite.

We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs.

On the platform where their current boss checks their profile.

That's networking.

We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools.

Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo.

We know each user's real name, employer, and job title.

We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products.

We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers.

Without anyone knowing.

Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught.

The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools.

We published two restricted APIs.

They handle 0.07 calls per second.

Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second.

In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times.

That's networking.

I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter.

The conference room is called The Fishbowl.

Glass walls.

Appropriate.

There's a plaque on the wall.

Q3 Competitive Landscape Award.

I won it for the extension scanning initiative.

Someone asked if users had a way to opt out.

I said they can close their browser.

The room laughed.

I wasn't sure why.

I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions.

Most of the team does.

The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit.

We know your name.

We know your employer.

We know your religion.

Your disabilities.

Your politics.

Whether you're looking to leave.

That's networking.

The system works exactly as designed.

I designed it.

[Jesse Richards @iamjesserichard]

Introducing Tesla Optimus v3

[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳A Chinese company, Unipath, has launched a household robot that is now in real-home use. It can wake users up on time, operate home appliances, organize storage spaces, and even cook meals automatically.

[Pablo Corral MD @drpablocorral]

☝️March 24 – Lp(a) Awareness Day

📍We routinely measure what we can treat.
But we’re still ignoring what we must not miss.

👉Lp(a) is causal.
👉Lp(a) is genetic.
👉Lp(a) is present from birth.

📍1 in 5 people carry elevated levels—
yet >98% have never been tested.

☝️No symptoms. No warning.
First event? Often too late.

📍We talk about precision medicine…
and still overlook one of the most powerful inherited drivers of cardiovascular risk.

This isn’t a knowledge gap.
It’s an action gap.
One test. Once in a lifetime.
No excuses left.

🙌Follow us on:
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[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

"We risk going from short-term disruption to long-term structural damage to the oil market," @elerianm tells me. "The increase in the oil price is going to persist for a while and that is going to mean not only higher interest rates, but lower growth, higher unemployment and a greater risk of financial instability."

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just called the exact top of the pharmaceutical industry.

Not a pivot. Not a disruption.

An extinction event.

Huang: “Where do I think the next amazing revolution is going to come? And this is going to be flat out one of the biggest ones ever. There’s no question that digital biology is going to be it.”

The medical establishment has spent centuries playing a chaotic game of trial and error.

We’re about to mathematically engineer the human operating system.

Huang: “For the very first time in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science. When something becomes engineering, not science, it becomes less sporadic and exponentially improving.”

Biology is no longer the dark art of random discovery.

It’s a predictable, compounding execution loop.

Translate the chaotic variables of chemistry into the laws of computer science and you stop waiting for accidental breakthroughs.

You simply compute the cure.

That line should terrify every pharmaceutical executive alive.

Huang: “It can compound on the benefits of the previous years. And every researcher’s contributions compound on each other.”

For decades, drug discovery has been an isolated, artisanal process.

One lab. One team. One molecule. Years of blind iteration.

The algorithm just shattered that entire bottleneck.

Every failed protein fold, every successful synthetic molecule instantly trains the foundational model.

Makes the next iteration mathematically smarter.

Huang: “We’re going to have incredible tools that bring the world of biology, which is very chaotic and constantly changing and diverse and complex, into the world of computer science. And that is going to be profound.”

Incumbent pharma looks at the human body and sees an unmanageable wall of variables.

Engineers look at that exact same body and see raw data waiting to be compiled.

No longer guessing how a molecule will react in the physical world.

Running millions of zero-cost simulated iterations before a single test tube is ever touched.

Rip the chaotic friction out of the physical lab and drop it directly into a massive GPU cluster?

The timeline to map, edit, and optimize the biological machine doesn’t shrink.

It collapses.

[James Blunt @JBlunt1018]

🚨 HOW TO GET OUT OF ABU DHABI RIGHT NOW (without State Dept help)

Please repost. This could genuinely help people get home.

This is based ONLY on my experience in Abu Dhabi as of 3/3.

1️⃣ You will NOT find evac flights online.
Stop refreshing. You’ll waste hours. The system won’t show them.

2️⃣ Use the Etihad app to get the customer care numbers.
⚠️ Do NOT call the local UAE number — they aren’t answering it.
Call the U.S. number or another international number.

3️⃣ Be ready to stay on hold for 2–3+ hours.
Put it on speaker. Stay patient.

4️⃣ Tell them you had a cancelled ticket and want to be rerouted.
Be flexible. Say you’re willing to go to ANY destination within your sector. If you’re open to amending your final destination, they are working with people.

5️⃣ They are honoring future bookings (within reason).
If you had a later ticket and want out sooner — ask. It’s possible.

That’s how I got out.
I flew east today and made it.

There IS a path — but it’s not visible online.

Share this. It might help someone get home. 🇺🇸✈️

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

If you're not following @HumanProgress, you're missing out--not on progress, but the best understanding of how things are getting better and why. Kudos @Marian_L_Tupy @chellivia