Fraser Simpson
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- How do healthcare providers construe patient complexity? A qualitative study of multimorbidity in HIV outpatient clinical practice | BMJ Open1 savers
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Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full 50 Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
Macbeth - Act 1, scene 5 | Folger Shakespeare LibraryOne idea is prediction markets: turn each drug into a prediction market, and traders can buy or sell shares on specific drugs—perhaps something hard endpoints like FDA approval for anti-aging by year 20XX, the results of meta-analyses on human clinical trials, or increases in population life-expectancy conditional on a drug being widely used
Startup Ideas · Gwern.netIt’s easy to forget that the world we wake up to, complain about, and exist in every day is a world we can influence.
World-building IRL - by Joss - box.Stealing like an artist means being able to stitch together faint whiffs of past lives into new ones
steal like an artist | Alicia GuoPenelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 Arto Paasilinna, The Howling Miller Virginia Woolf, Orlando Ford Maddox Ford, The Good Soldier James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man E.M. Forster, Room with a View Henry James, Washington Square Turgenev, Fathers and Sons Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich George Elito, Silas Marner Trollop, The Warden Dostoevsky, The Double
Syllabi | Great English LiteratureSamuel Johnson. “A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.”
Syllabi | Great English Literaturestrongly recommend that you find a copy of The Apple and the Spectroscope by T.R Henn as one of your starting points. It is a short book, written as a series of lectures requested by science students at Cambridge in 1951 to introduce them to poetry. It is the best introduction to poetry for smart people that I know of.
Syllabi | Great English Literatureclear communication is about encoding your thoughts in a way that can be properly understood by the recipient, rather than deciding which thoughts to send over
conversations on communication - by vincent huangMy answer is that if you tolerate too much half-heartedness, it’s probably because you’re half-hearted. As in: anxious and ambivalent, looking for reassurance. As in: bored, along for the ride, not really sure about your own feelings and opinions. As in: external locus of control vs internal locus of control. You probably don’t have anything in your life that really tethers you to yourself—you don’t have conviction about what you love, so you’re hoping that someone else will provide you that certainty.
how to avoid half-heartedness - by Ava - bookbear expressWhen everyone else stops at spending 20 percent of the effort to get 80 percent of the result, you'll spend 80 percent of the effort to get the last 20 percent, because to you, the last 20 percent is worth more than the first 80.
SeriousnessIt takes a lot of vigilance to guard your small flame against the gusts of conventionality.
SeriousnessIt means to treat something as important to a degree that most people consider it to be illogical to care about it that much. The amount you care is disproportionate to the problem size
SeriousnessWonder can be nurtured by consistently seeing the everyday as extraordinary, the ordinary as enchanting, and each person as a source of endless curiosity.
Wonder: Elixir of LongevityWhy do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It’s not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.
Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in ProgressIn the earliest days, a note to yourself once a week will suffice. Before Clipboard’s Series A, Wei made a document working backwards: “what do I need to get to raise my Series A, and what’s the narrative going to be about?” She wrote the Series A memo with all sorts of blanks and created a loose plan from there.
Lessons from Wei Deng, CEO and Founder of Clipboard Health, on relentless growth mindset from zero to Healthcare Unicornwriting really helps you think. It helps you realize this thought pattern or this process doesn’t actually work that well.
Lessons from Wei Deng, CEO and Founder of Clipboard Health, on relentless growth mindset from zero to Healthcare Unicorn“I used to be less into the writing culture and now I’m more into it, regarding how decisions are made. When you look back on things you’ve done in the past, it’s great to have documentation on how you thought about something.”
Lessons from Wei Deng, CEO and Founder of Clipboard Health, on relentless growth mindset from zero to Healthcare Unicorn“The limiting reagent to your company’s success is going to be your own psychology, so I did whatever I could to keep myself going… So many great companies and founders have all gone through near death moments or moments where nobody believed in them.”
Lessons from Wei Deng, CEO and Founder of Clipboard Health, on relentless growth mindset from zero to Healthcare Unicorn“If users aren’t that frustrated, it’s actually a bad sign. You want users to feel passionately about your product one way or another… You’d rather someone be angry than they don’t care at all.”
Lessons from Wei Deng, CEO and Founder of Clipboard Health, on relentless growth mindset from zero to Healthcare UnicornThe museumgoer encountering an artwork cannot pause, rewind, mute, turn up the volume or fast forward; instead of being controlled, the object will continue speaking its silent language for century after century, regardless of the presence or absence of an audience.
With My Own Eyes - by Robert Walrod - Earthly DelightsTo develop a theory of change, you need to start at the end and repeatedly ask yourself, “Concretely, how does one achieve that?”
Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)A theory of change is the opposite of a theory of action — it works backwards from the goal, in concrete steps, to figure out what you can do to achieve it.
Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)Let’s call this strategy a “theory of action”: you work forwards from what you know how to do to try to find things you can do that will accomplish your goal.
Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)I am increasingly convinced that the difference between effective and ineffective people is their skill at developing a theory of change.
Theory of Change (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)predicted for one US airline that, if every passenger flying with it lost roughly 10 pounds (4.5 kilograms), the airline would save more than 100 million litres of fuel per year. Other reports found potential impacts for companies producing medical devices such as knee implants for arthritis or masks for sleep apnoea, more demand for smaller cars, and reconfiguration of land and building use if people walk more in commercial areas.
How ‘miracle’ weight-loss drugs will change the world“It’s not just randomness but perceptions of randomness,” he said. “That’s the key.”
Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award | Quanta MagazineThe person who sees the proof doesn’t learn anything about the proof itself
Avi Wigderson, Complexity Theory Pioneer, Wins Turing Award | Quanta MagazineFocalin XR produces a bi-modal plasma concentration-time profile (i.e., two distinct peaks approximately 4 hours apart) when orally administered to healthy adults. The initial rate of absorption for Focalin XR is similar to that of Focalin tablets as shown by the similar rate parameters between the two formulations, i.e., first peak concentration (Cmax1), and time to the first peak (tmax1), which is reached in 1 ½ hours (typical range 1-4 hours). The mean time to the interpeak minimum (tminip) is slightly shorter, and time to the second peak (tmax2) is slightly longer for Focalin XR given once…
These highlights do not include all the information needed to use FOCALIN XR safely and effectively. See full prescribing information for FOCALIN XR. FOCALIN XR (dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride) Extended-Release Capsules CII for oral use Initial U.S. Approval: 2005Academic publishing is a multi-billion pound industry, with profit margins reportedly higher than those of Apple, Google and Amazon. It has always struck me as a racket: academics sign over their work to private businesses for free, and then their universities pay the same businesses hefty fees in order to read what they publish. Academics are also responsible for editing these journals and providing the peer-reviews, usually for free.
How to start a journal and beat the academic publishing racket -