"The smile on her face lights up a room," Doshia says of her daughter. And then, one drug screen later, Selah was taken. Doshia's not alone: tens of thousands of mothers are coming under scrutiny because of marijuana use. My latest @RollingStone rollingstone.com/culture/cul…

My twin @emcahan bailed on Thanksgiving, claiming a hospital shift Instead he went to the Ukraine/Russia frontlines to report on superbug chaos. @RollingStone published his story, calling superbugs the "climate change of medicine." My family freaked out rollingstone.com/politics/po…

In Lux’s recent letter to LPs (last part pg 3) we note rising CREDIT RISKS (amid consensus of ‘soft landing”) friend @JakeCahan of January.com recovery rates across their agency networks 📉 20-40% YoY Payment failures 📈30% YoY Risk of credit DEFAULTS rising📈

This is the best article I've ever read on the pharma industry. It's a wonderfully accessible read on why drugs used to be discovered at a much faster rate, the different stages of drug development, what's broken today, areas of investment to improve biomedical productivity, and more.

I’m so excited to announce our Series B!! Thanks @ryanlawler for breaking the news: axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/… A huge thank you to @beyroutey from @iaventures for leading the round and the rest of our investors for supporting us (@rohanm_ from @BrewerLaneVC , @keithhamlin from @thirdprimevc , @ckwitt3 from @upper__90, and others!) our team for building such a meaningful organization, our clients for working with us to set a new standard, and the consumers we engage with for teaching us and helping us become better. But, there’s so much left to build. We’re addressing an increasingly important problem in today’s economy. We’re hiring for many roles now, including a lot of engineers. boards.greenhouse.io/january… If you know anyone, please reach out!

26 ways Michael Jordan was described in his 700 page biography: 1. His competence was exceeded only by his confidence. 2.Jordan believed mostly in himself. In Mike he trusted. All others were open to question. 3.Michael puts every ounce of talent to use. Jordan goes all out. He outthinks you. 4.Animation and hyper-competitiveness were simply Jordan's normal state. 5. He had the motivation to be the best at it. 6.He tested himself. 7.He discovered the secret quite early in his competitive life: the more pressure he heaped on himself, the greater his ability to rise to the occasion. 8.He came to practice every day like it was Game 7 of the NBA Finals. That's what set the tone for our team. 9. It took the fewest of words to set him off. He would seize on apparently meaningless cracks or gestures and plunge them deep in his heart, until they glowed radioactively, the nuclear fuel rods of his great fire. 10.Young Michael had begun taking note of the pro game on TV. He was finding rare and special instructors through television. 11. At each step along his path others would express amazement at how hard he competed. 12. At every level he was driven as if he were pursuing something that others couldn't see. 13.He had a clear notion of what he wanted and he wasn't reluctant about expressing it publicly: “My goal is to be a pro athlete.” 14.The coach would recall that Jordan kept sneaking back into succeeding groups for more work that evening. 15.Jordan could sense immediately that he had something the others didn't. 16.They all began to grasp that Jordan's belief in himself reflected a level of intensity no one had contemplated before. 17.He was so committed he wouldn't allow himself to become sidetracked. He knew he wanted to be the best. He was very sure of himself, sure of what he wanted to do, and nothing was going to stop him 18.He was upset with teammates who lacked the necessary competitive drive. 19.He wanted to work on his shooting. And after practice he'd make you help him. He'd keep working on his shooting. He didn't care how long he was out there. Michael loved to play the game. 20. Jordan determined that he wanted to be recognized for having the “complete game." 21.Jordan presented a singleness of purpose that was hard to dent. 22.That's what made him a badass. He wasn't just a talent. It was the understanding of it all, the work ethic, the game itself, the strategy involved. He got it all. He understood all of it. 23. You got to understand what fuels that guy, what makes him great. He took the pain of that loss and held on to it. It's a part of what made him. 24. To his coaches his capacity to be coached was his single most impressive attribute. I had never seen a player listen so closely to what the coaches said and then go and do it. 25. It was quite possible that no one ever did anything better than Michael Jordan played basketball late in his career. 26. No one had seen him coming.

"if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals, and beliefs, we ossify and perish." ~@brainpicker 17 Life-Learnings from 17 Years of The Marginalian themarginalian.org/2023/10/2… via @brainpicker

Some -- actually many -- of my favorite lines from @paulg's recent essay on great work paulgraham.com/greatwork.htm…

.@Noahpinion's fascinating take on China's material real estate problems: noahpinion.blog/p/real-estat… "China was building a bunch of real estate that nobody was really using as real estate. Instead, they were increasingly using it as an investment vehicle." ht @WallStCynic

I loved @dwarkesh_sp's summary of Caro's biographies on Lyndon B Johnson, covering power, political intrigue, ambition, indomitability, and more. I strongly recommend it! ht @arbesman dwarkeshpatel.com/p/lyndon-j…

"The more tightly we control our models, the more attractive we make open alternatives" -- from leaked internal document from Google semianalysis.com/p/google-we…

"The best thing that founders can do is subtraction." - @tobi in an awesome interview with @farnamstreet where he talks about focus, fighting bureaucracy, professional CEOs vs founder-led companies, and more youtu.be/hUug8tEWtoY?t=856

Great article on Clausewitz & strategy ht @WTCM3 "Strategy is about picking the right battles. Tactics are about successfully executing those battles." "Strong determination in carrying through a simple idea is the surest route to success." gsb.columbia.edu/articles/id…