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CEO @alter. Ex: Founding team @SolvHealth, product @Zillow, marketing @Trulia, dev @Cisco. SF `99-`21. Now Park City, UT. East coast forever.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline.

Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@Forbes TLDR; 100 grams of sugar at a time.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@nikillinit Would love to see these same data for body composition change / weight loss and associated diseases.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@eastdakota @PCski @VailResorts Could be such an amazing resort experience with proper management. Not that hard to do either.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@erenbali @CarbonHealth @kozkay Congratulations @kozkay . Have always enjoyed working with you!

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@Jason Working on
☑️ closing out Q2 late stage pipe to hit goal
☑️ repackaging and repricing to better meet customer needs.
☑️ 2H GTM and product objectives.

Struggling with
☑️ hiring great marketing leadership
☑️ helping people do the best work of their lives in a remote world.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

This is one of the greatest displays of the creative process I've seen.

John Mayer perfectly demonstrates something that many of my favorite artists all say:

You become creative by creating.

"You just keep going 'til you get something," Mayer says/sings. "You gotta keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it…it doesn’t matter [what comes out of your mind/mouth].”

Dr. Andrew Huberman talks about how the brain circuits that turn on before those involved in creativity are of the stress system.

I've heard him use 3 analogies to explain this.

1) It’s like you have to wade through sewage before you can swim in clear water.

2) It’s like when you try to lift your max on the bench press—it takes time to work up to that weight.

3) It’s like your best creative work is on the other side of a door at the top of a staircase—it takes time and effort to get up the stairs and through that door.

In other words, Dr. Huberman says, you become more creative the more you create.

Many artists talk similarly about what Mayer refers to in the clip as "ouija boarding" (just sort of spitting out words and sounds).

John Legend says his songs start with what he calls “the mumble track.” “It’s just me humming and mumbling nonsense,” he said.

Judd Apatow says his movie scripts are all a product of the Down-Up theory: “Get the ideas DOWN then fix them UP.” “Give yourself permission to suck," Judd says. "Anything goes. Just get something down.”

Even if it’s nonsense, he says. Keep forcing it, forcing it, forcing it.

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Before I started writing online, I told Ryan Holiday I was just waiting to know for certain what I wanted to write about.

“Just start," he said.

"You’re trying to map out the whole 9 innings. Just throw the first pitch…You’re better off starting imperfectly than being paralyzed by the delusion of perfection.”

Rather than being paralyzed by the delusion that creativity comes to you, you're better off "forcing it, forcing it, forcing it," as Mayer said.

"Go get it from the universe."

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[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@StevenOverly @lindsaymeyer I was hopeful for the work Frequency Therapeutics is doing but the early trials are mixed at best.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@StevenOverly Thank you for sharing your story. I experienced sudden hearing loss in 2019 and I deeply relate to how you describe the process of managing your new life.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@elonmusk So nuclear?

[Heather M. Fernandez @heathermirj]

We just launched Solv Connect and our partnership with @CarbonHealth! Connect helps urgent cares & health systems better serve their communities by opening up scheduling capacity from their EHR, and allowing patients to discover appts on @solvhealth 1/3 https://t.co/RjLZHk3DUw

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@balajis A derivative of altitude is “outdoor culture” - hiking, biking, running, skiing - which would explain the correlation?

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

The killer feature for @SlackHQ <> @salesforce is auto-creation channels for Accounts and having your employees work on deals and customers real time in Slack with visibility of communication Salesforce.

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@techguy @solvhealth Get well soon John!

[Solv @solvhealth]

We raised $3.5M from 75 female investors over 10 days. 60% of the SPV investors were women of color and 1/3 never made a venture investment before.

CEO @heathermirj spoke with @techcrunch about this experience and her passion for diversity in tech: https://t.co/UnQl8QZmxP

[Heather M. Fernandez @heathermirj]

Quick story: a Solver was recently overcharged $325, even when she knew the right questions to ask! For many Americans, that would have been devastating to their bank account...it’s a case study on the backwardness in healthcare -- and how it doesn’t need to be this way! 🧵

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@onepeloton Howlin For You - Black Keys

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

Post pandemic @solvhealth is 🤯❤️

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@elonmusk So your vision is a 1990s BBS?

[Rossi @stephenrossi]

@jimcramer Definitely American comorbidities at play here