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@samavishay a very thin mustache could go a long way

What's one thing I could change about my appearance that would make me more attractive?

@pjsantoro i was just thinking about you this morning and how much i miss you (was designing a color system for my 100th attempt at organizing my PHR)

iran should target the government's design teams, digital/social strategists, and content creators first

@StuartBlitz solo tax? search for 2 passengers

Look, I know a lot goes into airline pricing but why the fuck is it ~$600+ one-way to LAX in a few weeks

@jonnokim perfect location to write some prompts

i should’ve brought my laptop

Thinking through more second order effects of self-driving cars in healthcare A predominant belief is that self-driving cars will boost electric vehicles. Most autonomous cars are electric because electric vehicles are way simpler to operate, cheaper for fleets, and the onboard computing needed to be autonomous requires a lot of electricity. Waymos are all electric, Tesla is electric, and all the Chinese self-driving cars are electric. There’s quite a bit of literature now that combustion engine output causes worse health outcomes for people exposed to them regularly. One of my favorite studies looked at EZ-pass being rolled out. Cars went through faster so there was less congestion, which meant less emissions around the toll areas. After the roll out there was a pretty significant drop in premature/low weight births for people near the toll areas. More recently, a study looked at zip codes in California and found that as electric vehicles increased, asthma-related emergency department visits dropped 3.2%. So a second order effect of self driving will be electric vehicles becoming the predominant car on the road. A third order effect will be better population health for people that live close to highways.

@TateHackert did you pay for your flight or nonrev?

I went to Turkey over Christmas to get a hair transplant, but didn't go through with it. Sh*t was sketch and had me feeling like an episode of Black Mirror. AMA

@jonnokim miss this team!

back in the day when tech was fun c. 2017

nice day in nice

@austinthesing reddit.com/r/CringeTikTok…

so we are doing medical advice based on the vibes from the president now? this country is so fucked lol

If you think building is about code, you’ve never built anything real. It’s about managing people who don’t understand code.

@jonnokim it’s the only way to live

does anyone else start packing 30 min before heading out to the airport for an international flight?

@erenbali soap!

We take everyday inventions for granted. Like towels. The mf gets soaking wet, dries itself like nothing happened and we all act like it’s no big deal.

@erenbali @lexbyanyname

We should revisit all tarpid ideas with AI. An app for patients to aggregate medical records was on of those ideas that failed so many times. But this time I can see it working. Previously the effort to aggregate records was very high and you still only got 20% of them. But the more important problem was there was not much utility. With AI 3 things change 1. It’s now useful as context for your AI assistant and could be summarized for your physicians to review 2. Interoperability has gotten better over years. The bottleneck was that most records are unstructured / poorly structured but LLMs can easily process. 3. You can record your visits, take photos of your prescriptions, lab results etc with AI to maintain your records.

The labor market is looking more and more like something from the casino economy - following the same mechanics as dating apps and memestock trading. I think there are three important points (1) The US is facing a crisis of zero-sum thinking, as Alex Tabbarok recently wrote about (which I believe is exacerbated by things like Jubilee) (2) Young women in healthcare are succeeding in the labor market because they are prepped for an aging economy as John Burn Murdoch's wrote about - and men are having trouble. The economy has changed from creation to maintenance. (3) The way that the hiring process is designed is increasingly a lottery that further fuels zero-sum thinking And more! Link in next post, enjoy.

@StuartBlitz it's crazy that 10 years ago we were saying the same thing about uber at airports

I'm a simple man. I just want to land at SFO and hop into a Waymo. Why is this so hard?

(to be clear: this is NOT a "i'm coming back to tech announcement")

Chase is hiking the Sapphire Reserve annual fee to $795 (up from $550, originally $450). You still get the $300 travel credit, so real cost is $495. They claim you’ll get $2700 of value from the perks, but it’s more annoying than ever: • lots more differing points values to keep track of • You have to book travel (hotel/air) through their janky portal to maximize points If you’re willing to do that, it’s worth it. But for most people: Just get Robinhood Gold for 3% cash back and stop thinking about points. Or wait for the Coinbase card when it launches.

first full day back in 🇺🇸 and i remembered how much i HATE driving. i want to go to the gym, but i don't want to drive 5 min to get there.

@jonnokim i respect the hustle (outlook and teams)

miss the job stacking days back in 2022 when tech job market was at its peak. #overemployed