Fructose v. Tagatose feels like Uber v. SF taxi commission. US spends $1.9T per year on healthcare costs related to poor nutrition. Fructose is a contributing factor. Tagatose is cheap/healthy sugar. Time to rethink labels?
#T2D
@mayemusk
@RobertLustigMD
"Highly refined sugar (and ultra-processed grain, which turns into sugar) in so many foods is the culprit that is addicting, afflicting and killing more Americans annually than fentanyl and other illicit drugs."
@DrCaseysKitchen
@Aviation_Intel
V-22 is an engineering marvel. The team that worked on it when I was at Boeing was brilliant. As an engineer, it was out of my comfort zone. A few too many rotational parts moving in too many directions on takeoff/landing.
We comment on the venture market and our strategy in AgTech/Food/Health with our investors each quarter. I pulled out an excerpt that is not confidential. Please listen and let me know your thoughts
#foodishealth
1/ I have two key “Things” as big goals in my life….
Thing One is to transform the economy with persistent 4% GDP growth
Here is the plan….
Step One is to remove the barriers to investing in innovation
@EricRWeinstein
I was peripherally involved in this in 2001. When the national stockpile was increased after 9/11 the threat was scaled for bio terrorism. The pandemic model was still in work. Post 2009 swine, the masks were not replenished. Somewhere around 2009 good place to look.
@WashburneAlex
@DrJBhattacharya
The part I don't get is accepting the probability. Is it a fear of blame? Perhaps we need to accept that industrial accidents happen. And then work systematically avoid them.
At St. Lukes in St. Louis for Doctors appointment. Signs about diabetes everywhere. But the coffee counter seems to have another agenda. Is our food system a gateway drug to healthcare?
I just had an NIH grant rejected by CSR prior to review because a figure legend creeped into the 0.5in margin. I wish NIH had other things to focus on than page margins, but be careful!
It took Amazon 13 Years to 100x its IPO price. And 24 years to 1000x. It would take you 48 Years to 100x the S&P, and 73 years to 1000x. Had you bought and held Amzn at IPO you would have done just fine without day trading. The "Option" to invest is an advantage.
@RoKhanna
Boeing's failure is orders of magnitude more safe than virtually every industry in the world. Beat on them to make them better. But Boeing and FAA have collaborated for decades and made aviation safe and continue to do so. Has healthcare? Has food?
@MarioNawfal
@theinformantofc
We have a guest worker program for agriculture labor. It is illegal for farms to hire non citizens without work permits. Agriculture is not trying to use undocumented workers.
@RetsefL
@BillAckman
@MIT
@Princeton
As an MIT alum, their short fall is new. MIT accepted jews when no other university would. Never had a quota. Never limited Jewish professors. The other ivys did in the 20s, 30s, even 60s. Harvard did not want Einstein when he emigrated.
@paulg
I spent many years in aerospace. It is a cool idea, but practically the future is bits not atoms. Speed has little economic marginal value. Airforce 1 should be a 777 with standardized systems, not a 747.
Based on my time working in Defense, I can imagine several military and benign reasons for the balloons. I can not find really any news that comes close to what I think the truth is. Instead, articles are about politics. The press is failing. Get to facts.
There is a new ETF, symbol $FDA. It invests in US CPGs who are experts in ultraprocessed food and drug companies that produce GLP-1. It donates 50 basis points to a PAC that funds pro-rentseeking politicians. The Sacklers were simple amateurs.
#painkiller
Fed flooded market with cash, savings rates went up, banks did not have enough loans, so bought bonds in low-interest environment, market overheated, raised interest rate, reduced bond portfolio value, triggered run. I sort of feel like an idiot not to see it coming.
@nntaleb
Democracy is a firewall to all other failed forms of government. Done well, it does not make a country great through politicians, it allows people to achieve greatness by curtailing the heavy hand of government.
We looked at cardiovascular risk factors for 186 people with T2D advised on a low carb diet over 33 months AND THEY ALL IMPROVED SIGNIFICANTLY. Serum triglycerides by a third! Look 👀 We published here Low carb it’s not just about blood sugar 👍
@calleymeans
and
@DrCaseysKitchen
are an inspiration.
When my mother died, 5 minutes before falling into a final coma, she admitted, "I guess I should not have smoked". We had spent decades trying to get her not to smoke.
When I die, I expect to say "I guess I should not have
In a burst of energy before she died, my mom urged us to take her to where she'd be buried.
Cupping my dad's face, she talked about how magical their life was together.
It was the most profound moment of my life, and it wouldn't have happened if we listened to her doctors.
This morning I compiled a complete list of yearly train derailments over time directly from the Federal Railroad Administration Office of Safety Analysis.
We are, in fact, at an all-time low in terms of train derailments for as long as this agency has data (since 1975).
@tszzl
Does GPT4 (or 5) make weaker programmers better? Are we at peak programming? When Uber entered the market, people thought there was no more demand for taxi. Maybe if the programming cost goes down, we will need 10x as much code. More prompt engineers.
@AlecStapp
People took advantage of fuel efficiency to move further from city centers and buy cheaper homes, still using the same volume of gas each week.
The path to better healthcare is better food. As part of
@CrusoniaOrg
@RobertLustigMD
, a leading endocrinologist, and I discuss the toxicity of sugar and its related healthcare cost. It is a challenging topic, please share the video
@AlecStapp
This journey goes back to 1990. And we should ask why NIH kept denying them grants and how that impacted tenure for the founding scientists. Bob Langer also played key role in 2009 time frame figuring out the encapsulation.
I'm back on bike for the first time since my bad bike accident in October. Should have done this ride in 43 mins. Never expected an accident to cause that much apprehension.
@Chris_Said
@ATabarrok
Is there a business model for curing the falsification of research? Like bug hunts in code? Or some other motivation or reward for whistle-blowing? Perhaps a deep after-action review of why researchers cheat or why they make gross errors.
#replicationcrisis
@drvolts
There are 100k flights every day. Occasionally a malfunction. In this case, an engine made by GE. On a plane likely manufactured 10 years ago. Probably 45k hours of flight time. A fire can occur from something as simple as sucking a screw off the tarmac. Millions of details.
The leaked IRS data is not news. If you invest in appreciating assets, hold them long-term, and rarely sell, you build wealth and do not pay a lot of taxes. Those investments create innovation. That innovation lowers the cost of all products for everyone. H/T
@Mark_J_Perry
6/Step Five: Economic Education - Innovation is deflationary. Innovation lowers cost. Make “Good” cost less than “Bad.” Use innovation to drive so much deflation the Fed can never catch up. Policymakers watch in amazement.
@iSelectFund
first Unicorn. Our portfolio company Benson Hill is going public. We started investing in Benson in 2014, and every step along the way. We find opportunity before its obvious. $STPC
The thing startups need most is customers. More so than money.
VCs spend a lot of time on diligence. What would it look like if our firm spent as much time building a network of early adopter customers? And would the result be better?
Food innovation will disrupt the market in ways you do not yet understand. Great CEOs lead the market with a clear vision and execution, quarter by quarter. In time, the new vision becomes obvious. The $bhil team will disrupt the market: read how
@RepWeinstein
@PeterSchiff
@elonmusk
The selective application of the loan program disrupted the natural evolution of the market, delaying direct-drive wind and other EV firms who failed to get in line quick enough. Doing more damage than good to renewables market. You follow?
@AlecStapp
This is also a good but different strategy for Taiwan. If China attempts to move on Taiwan, send 500 airplanes and move key talent to California.
US greatest geopolitical strength/weapon is our economic power and immigration of talent.
"Exponential growth is the key to overcoming the challenges and obstacles that we face as a society. It allows us to create solutions that were previously unimaginable." - Ray Kurtzweil
#innovation
#exponentialgrowth
3/Step Two: A Network - What does every startup need? A Customer. What drives disruption? A network. Build the largest network in the world of early adopter customers, domain experts and investors
@jbarro
Why do people think people around him would fail to follow the constitution? I get people are upset with many of his decisions, but is there an example of him just ignoring the law of substance without consequence? Why do we waste our time on these nutty ideas?