There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring

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Note: this essay is co-written with Eryney Marrogi, who helped seed the initial idea and edited this piece a fair bit. On a related note, I’m helping him run an NYC meetup event on Wednesday, November 20th in Williamsburg, you should sign up here to come! If you like biology, ML, or human connection, I highly recommend attending!🦉 There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring. At least in industry. If you work in biology for long enough, you’ll eventually realize that most decent or ambitious companies in this field are run by exactly one type of person. They are often deeply curious, hard working to the point of near pathology, and will almost always end up pursuing some sort of crazy pie-in-the-sky mission. Like curing aging or making de-novo proteins in a zero-shot manner or trying to usher in entirely new dogmas in biology. In other words, something where immense intellectual output leads to outsized market payoff. The companies they start will usually have th

Arguments There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring 3k words, 14 minutes reading time Abhishaike Mahajan and Eryney Marrogi Oct 21, 2024 147 18 24 Share Note: this essay is co-written with Eryney Marrogi , who helped seed the initial idea and edited this piece a fair bit. On a related note, I’m helping him run an NYC meetup event on Wednesday, November 20th in Williamsburg, you should sign up here to come! If you like biology, ML, or human connection, I highly recommend attending!🦉 There aren't enough smart people in biology doing something boring. At least in industr

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