YES it took me 6 months and NO i don't regret it

My first interview with @sachaker, Founder & CEO of Babylon Biosciences. Babylon is on a quest to cure Alzheimer’s. 1:00 History of Alzheimer’s research 8:09 Why tackle this problem 12:22 Axon degeneration 13:57 Structuring Babylon to survive many failures 15:24 Self-financing Alzheimer’s moonshots 19:01 Viagra 19:59 Swanson linking and Raynaud syndrome 24:16 Most efficacious drugs for Alzheimer’s 27:29 Experience starting Babylon 31:34 Attracting mission aligned people 36:24 Filtering for missionaries vs mercenaries 41:07 Lack of agency causes burnout 46:02 Living without a phone to reduce distraction 49:31 Why the information to cure Alzheimer’s might already be out there 54:19 How AI changes things 55:36 Controversial science 1:03:11 Volunteering at memory clinics 1:04:28 Impact-per-dollar and being scrappy 1:07:55 Internalizing pain when you make a bad decision 1:09:26 Time to last embarrassment 1:10:51 Risk taking 1:12:57 What causes cognitive impairment 1:22:11 What keeps him up at night

uh... what?

Alzheimer's Competitive Landscape 🧠 a deep dive into the unmet need and future of treatment:

the earliest epiphany i can remember was realizing that the land masses on my grandfather's globe fit together perfectly. i guessed they all originated from the same mass. he told me that was "pangea". it *blew my mind* to have that confirmed. would love to hear others.

Where do decisions get made? Decisions about sensory information are thought to arise high in the cortical processing hierarchy. Our @NatureNeuro study challenges this, showing that decision signals consequential for behaviour are found at the earliest cortical processing stages.

it really is incumbent on anyone in a position to effect true change in the world to do so. agreed 100%. this article really resonated with me. i highly recommend

Github is the GOAT of easter eggs

it seems way easier to optimize a scaled process than to scale an optimized process. why is this not discussed more in SaaS and beyond?

i received an email from a recruiter who did not know i rejected the NSF GRFP. "new competitive salary starting at $70,000" this is for a 27-30yr old with a PhD in Neuroscience? this is what we pay our best and brightest to further humanity's understanding of human health? sad.

trying something new. no phone for 8-10 days or so. see you on the other side!

if anyone wants to join a virtual coworking space with me today, i'll be on there all day. (for anyone who wants a space to just quietly get work done) meet.google.com/nxk-pvur-hff

to my crypto friends: is crypto really going to get regulated away? wasn't the whole point that it could exist adjacent to governments and financial systems to circumvent the various shortcomings? what does it say that it is becoming beholden to regulation by governments?

This chart shows the proportion of original films to sequels in the worldwide top 50 grossing releases over the last few decades. Are we running out of ideas? Or is it just nostalgia?