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John E Bailey

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  • Also, learn how to evaluate what people are great at, and put them in those roles. (This is the most important thing I have learned about management, and I haven’t read much about it.) You want to have a reputation for pushing people hard enough that they accomplish more than they thought they could, but not so hard they burn out.
    How To Be Successful
  • One of the best ways to build a network is to develop a reputation for really taking care of the people who work with you.
    How To Be Successful
  • My other big sales tip is to show up in person whenever it’s important.
    How To Be Successful
  • Whether it was scientific skill or luck that caused the field to make these two assumptions, in hindsight they seem to have been spot on. The earliest TMS trials for depression from 1995 and 1996 used nearly exactly the same stimulation setup as would eventually be approved by the FDA in 2008
    Milan Cvitkovic
  • One thing that’s clear in reviews and meta-analyses from the time is that the easier a parameter was to vary, the more it was explored.
    Milan Cvitkovic
  • The major contributor to TMS’s slow path to approval was probably the field’s overwhelming focus on depression.
    Milan Cvitkovic
  • It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: “This is water.” “This is water.”
    This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio) - Farnam Street
  • The key is to get yourself into a position where you’re the least useful person in the room, but work hard to quickly fix that.
    Max Hodak - Avoid little leagues
  • Give yourself new senses, as arbitrary as sensing technology allows
    The Goals of Neurotechnology
  • Arbitrary control of time perception
    The Goals of Neurotechnology
  • Augmented self-awareness
    The Goals of Neurotechnology
  • Remove your discount rate
    The Goals of Neurotechnology
  • Perfect therapy: identify the precise root psychological causes of whatever is ailing you
    The Goals of Neurotechnology
  • "Back in the 1960s and early 1970s I took plenty of LSD. A lot of people were doing that in Berkeley back then. And I found it to be a mind-opening experience. It was certainly much more important than any courses I ever took."[51][verification needed] During a symposium held for centenarian Albert Hofmann, Hofmann said Mullis had told him that LSD had "helped him develop the polymerase chain reaction that helps amplify specific DNA sequences".[52]
    Kary Mullis
  • TaqMan probes were named after the videogame Pac-Man (Taq Polymerase + PacMan = TaqMan) as its mechanism is based on the Pac-Man principle.
    TaqMan
  • . What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data
    Curius / Onboarding