Golam Kawsar

If you are a mathematician, then you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.

Someone can certainly *make* a billion dollars. That’s not the same thing as earning. Growing fast and disrupting markets also often means chasing and wielding market power, political influence, and scale. Take Airbnb. They heavily lobby politicians against passing housing laws to protect working class residents because it’s bad for their business model. Airbnb could not exist at its current scale and size without the housing market destabilizations, displacements, and exploits that are supercharging the evictions of working people everywhere from Puerto Rico to Jackson Hole. Now young people are planning for a future where they will never be able to afford to own a home while others have 20 and live off renting it out to them at extortionate rates with zero protections. Yes, a tiny amount of people can make billions of dollars doing that. And millions of everyday Americans are bearing the cost.

Major essay in Import AI 455, just published online.

I'm 55. If you're in your 30s or 40s, read this: 1. Marriage won’t fix loneliness. Neither will kids, money, or sex.

Over the past 34 years the average Chinese man became, on average, 3 inches taller than his grandfather. But entire population can't rewrite its DNA in 35 years. So what made them grow so fast? The answer might surprise you.

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

Martin Picard published one of the most important papers in modern biology in 2025. Almost no one outside a small circle of researchers has heard of it. The Energy Resistance Principle may explain disease, aging & energy crashes — from first principles. Here’s the framework:🧵

Imagine taking a single day to create a new drug? Well now that’s possible with AI! The future of medicine (and peptides) is so bright!!!

I find it mildly amusing how mathematicians are currently clinging onto the hope that there is something special about their creativity that AI will not also be able to pull off in a year or two.