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We know a lot about treating depression. But what do we know about preventing it?

Doctors should form a class action and force EHR conglomerates into free-market interface development

Quick-and-dirty guide to one of the two tools a technologist needs to understand any new technology.

Physicians have terrible technology, but they refuse to recognize high-tech as a medical specialty.

Academic databases need to update -paywalling is dead.

Stable, fast-growing DAOs like BitDAO could be the future of Open Science. Metaresearchers take note!

Ignore the drama. Here’s why it’s time to start paying attention to blockchain, crypto, DeFi, and DAOs.

Why yes, yes they can! This is an eco-nerd article about the economics of methanogens and carbon

This is simply a curious question, is beauty universal? What would happen if I shared 200 beautiful things?

Lots of people with genius find it hard to stay in the lines. This is not because they don’t care about other people’s feelings.

Writing a book is hard. Having it edited is even harder. Doing it all in a week is implausible, but not impossible!

Why can't work be fun? Science shows humans are more motivated by solving puzzles than they are by carrot-and-stick models.

The US wants to be a meritocracy, and part of that is believing that anyone can do anything. But then what do we mean by merit?

My chief beef with psychiatry is it only studies one end of the bell-curve, it doesn’t examine intellectual or artistic genius.

Public health drama! San Francisco insists that e-cigarettes prove safety before selling to residents. Ban goes into effect today.

Brilliant article on finding meaning in a high-tech world. What do humans do when AI automates routine cognitive tasks?

Last year I wrote several grants on using brain scans to detect early dementia in political leaders. We should develop unbiased screening methods to preserve peace.

There is a movement among startup founders and funders to promote zebras over unicorns.

Really interested in how this meme is spreading to journalists, and how it might bounce back to the public. 

Real genius often looks anything but — we're evolving, our ideas of intelligence need to evolve too.

Like most solo female startup founders, I've seen investment deal terms that would make a Tijuana rug hawker blush.

Every doc knows holidays can be paradoxically depressing. If you know someone who needs a pick-me-up try Hyperbole and a Half!

Guess what I learned at HustleCon... you can send a zebra to space! 

EHR developers completely miss how kinesthetic, and aesthetic true medical evaluations are.

Ghetto testing is the best way to build software — but how do you do it in critical sectors?

The problem with natural-language-processing in medicine is that the medical record is often fictional. So the algorithm…

Homelessness is a complex system, and we need to use chaos and complexity theory to build adequate solutions.

We use an aptitude + apprenticeship model to promote talented people within their field of interest.

Todreamalife presenting on their progress with the Empulse app for the Stanford AI in Medicine: Inclusion and Equity initiative.