Ramez Naam
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@ramez
Climate and clean energy investor. Author of 5 books. Energy & Environment co-chair @SingularityU. Trying to build a better world.
Mamdani's housing plan is live! There's sweeping YIMBY stuff: -Aggressive TOD upzoning -Major permitting reform -Rescuing & rebuilding NYCHA -Building Code reform They're also looking at finer details, like fixing the FDNY inspections that so often delay final occupancy
Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.
Today, @coeff_giving is launching the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor initiative to accelerate vaccine development against one of the world's most neglected infectious diseases relative to its scale. Strep A kills ~639,000 people a year. There is no vaccine. I think that can change 🧵
ivy league grads are 0.5% of the population and more than 12 percent of all Fortune 500 CEOs, 32 percent of all New York Times journalists, and 13 percent of the wealthiest 0.1 percent of the population. everyone assumes it's the teaching. it isn't. an economics professor at Dartmouth said he doesn't think there's a big difference between Ivy Plus professors and professors at other universities. i went to columbia. the headline professors mostly handed class off to TAs. everyone's second guess is the network. also wrong on the timing. salary gaps between ivy and non-ivy grads widen over the career, not at graduation, which is exactly when prestige should matter most. the real driver is the opportunity to learn how to succeed in an environment filled with the world's most talented and ambitious people. concentration of drive. you absorb the bar by sitting next to it.
Narrative violation: Gen Z has the highest consumer confidence. Gen X and Boomers are the pessimists. I do feel that undercuts many of the material explanations for the vibecession, insofar as uniquely awful economic conditions for young people are a main driving force.
In unsurprising news, Saudi Arabia has halted work on the Line until after 2030 What a waste of money, time and emissions!
If you go on a weight loss drug such as a GLP-1 or similar just to shed a few pounds, you will likely become psychologically dependent upon these drugs for life. If you stop and regain the weight, which almost all do, you will find it extremely difficult to lose the weight again without the drugs. You then will be forever dependent on these drugs, something you may not have considered, The folks that “hop on a cycle of Reta” to get lean for the summer are going to be stuck on these drugs for life, or at least the vast majority will. Just watch it play out!
Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants
I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots. It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to sprint to the press briefing room where we are holding now.
🚨🇺🇸 BREAKING Secret Service sniper teams are now reportedly visible on the White House roof. That is a standard protective response after a security incident, with teams deploying to elevated positions to secure the grounds. It fits the active posture following the earlier reports of gunfire and the press being moved inside. Source: @Spectator_MENA
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
Washington unanimously legalized scissor stairs, a building code reform that frees up to 56% more living space per floor. Less wasted space means cheaper homes on smaller lots. Most US states banned this since the 1970s for no good reason.
