nikita.space 👩🏾‍💻 days: building Fortuna Health, nights: exploring spaceship earth
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May 21
Infinite Jest presaged when years would no longer be 2030 / numbered but subsidized and sponsored by brands (“Year of the Trial-sized Dove Bar,” “Year of Perdue Wonderchicken”), brands larping as civic services, etc.
May 19
The Ordinary is launching a free NYC bus line between Domino Park in Williamsburg and Prospect Park, cutting out the irritation of having to travel through Manhattan just to get between two parts of Brooklyn.
The limited-run shuttle operates May 26 through June 9.
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May 3
Almost finished with the biography of William Booth, founder of Salvation Army. His *only* job before becoming a preacher was working at pawn shops as a teen. There were as many pawn shops in 1800s England as pubs.
The Salvation Army innovation was tying pawn brokering to faith.
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May 3
Italy innovated on the model far before the UK. During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church allowed secular brokers under Monte di PietĂ (accumulation of piety). The monti were municipally chartered, charitable pawnshops aimed at ameliorating the condition of the poor. Even the Medicis offered money to Florence for its monti.
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Nikita S retweeted
Apr 17
When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.
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Mar 5
TIL PETA and its founders were some of the earliest vaccine skeptics
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Feb 22
2026-2027 state budgets are increasingly being funded by “sin taxes”. In deficit, states like Illinois, Maryland, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio have nearly doubled taxes on vapes, nicotine, and (sports) betting per wager
We’ve clearly lost our way, picking vices over productivity
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There’s a massive opportunity for AI to completely leapfrog in healthcare.
In Kenya, mobile finance emerged because there was no traditional banking system to work around or through.
Medicaid's infrastructure is so dated that it effectively functions like "no infrastructure" for the people trying to use it most - many of whom are mobile-first today.
Great chat with @singareddynm of @hifortunahealth and @flottobrasil of @CedarNY about what could emerge when you leapfrog the broken system entirely and build something better with AI.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Feb 1
The military is known for seeding modern computing… but little known for its concerted projects in user experience and human-centered design
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Jan 2
Whenever the “rules” of economic organization change, we create parallel games to make sense of them. Chess in Persia trained hierarchy and bureaucratic planning; card games mirrored probability, credit, and insurance; and poker emerged with 19th-century frontier speculation and weak regulations
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I find this to be remarkably similar to the popularity of prediction markets.
Players find themselves without agency AND their institutions don’t seem to have a monopoly on forecasting and shaping the future either: the future becomes something you trade on, not build toward.
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Jan 2
In prediction markets, it’s not about winning the future because no one controls outcomes… but someone can be less wrong than someone else. Participation is a thin form of agency to position yourself correctly.
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In the 1950s, AT&T Bell Labs sent technicians to 10 months of humanist education at UPenn (to instill liberal democratic values). IBM taught ethics and public speaking. Tech today promotes empty and prosaic culture of 996, founder mode, etc.
Imagine if we more seriously experimented with educating the “organizational man”
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31 Dec 2025
I am so serious that there remain many ways to improve the world that are low cost, low hanging fruit. See Mexico and cement:
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31 Dec 2025
Upon further reading… 58.8% of homes in low-income countries have soil, palm, or thatch floors and walls.
Cheap concrete flooring - instead of the billions we spend in economic aid - would have a massive ROI on sustainability improving health and economic growth.
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Nikita S retweeted
17 Dec 2025
Whenever I start to believe the world is ugly, meaningless, trite, etc I think of what Rilke wrote to Kappus: "If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches"
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4 Dec 2025
One of those days when I am grateful for love - and being in love with my favorite person @danielhavir
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15 Nov 2025
The infant brain is intentionally “overbuilt” with 100 billion neurons. At 2–3 years old, children have twice as many synapses as an adult! Then their brains go through tremendous cell death for precision rewiring. So every baby... is actually Boss Baby
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28 Oct 2025
One of the best things about building a startup is that your company can reflect your values and the world you wish to see.
With the government shutdown, many states are unable to offer partial or full food stamp/SNAP benefits next month, leaving 40M families without support for essentials like baby food. Fortuna Health is providing a free week of infant formula to households we serve with a child aged one year or younger.
Proud to stand with families when it matters most 👉 fortunahealth.com/resources/…
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