Math guy. MD at Thiel Capital. Host of The Portal
Delighted to see this conversation of my buddy Lex Fridman. Check it out!
29 Tweets of thoughtful analysis on how our botched response to COVID changed many of our thinking. Pandemic shows what is wrong w/ simplistic libertarianism in defeating an epidemic. And the moronic response showed why simplistic libertarianism may be needed after all. So sad.
Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are 4 shelves of spines of books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are:
I resist most requests for book recommendations. I suggest "Prison Diary" by Jayaprakash Narayan for this moment in our democracy. ["Break Glass in Case of Emergency People" comes from a long forgotten slogan in Hindi: "अंधेरे में एक प्रकाश" as a play on the word "Emergency".]
Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are 4 shelves of spines of books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are:
Folks frequently ask “What are the books that changed your life?” If I tell them, they are usually radically disappointed. I find that curious. I just cleared out of an office, and these are 4 shelves of spines of books that mattered enough to me to bring home. So here they are:
I’m always asked for book recommendations but am reluctant to give them. “All the Trouble in the World” was an amazing book by @PJORourke. He‘s also a master stylist of distinctly American English. Politics aside, I envy more of his sentences than of anyone else writing today.
I’m going to be talking more this year about how the battlefield of Twitter is destroying science, medicine, journalism and trust. Read this thread in both directions. This could be a sincere GP, paid fake Pharma acct, etc. Only Twitter knows. We *have* to restore collegiality.