I fought hard for you in the ICU. So did covid, writes Lakshman Swamy ([email protected]) in PostEverything wapo.st/3FGmIVF

So, er, it seems that Elon Musk just tweeted about What We Owe The Future. Crazy times! You might wonder: Where do we agree and disagree? Here’s a thread.

We know academia is becoming less productive (nber.org/papers/w23782) and publications ≠ impact. This paper shows the ways publication volume may impede recognition and uptake of ideas.

📰 Read Danielle Allen's (Danielle Allen) thoughts on Power-Sharing Liberalism, her commentary on "Abundance Progressives", and a deep examination & analysis of the current political and ideological landscape. #OpEd bit.ly/powersharingli…

All this time Alene had thought I was no smarter than a chicken… Proud of Alene and LIC nonetheless

On the evils of sludge. City Journal Mary MacLennan Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 city-journal.org/can-sludge-kil…

For World Lung Day, we are eager to share our letter to the American Thoracic Society, calling to eliminate race adjustment in Pulmonary Function Tests. With this, we can take steps towards advancing racial equity in health care. Read: on.nyc.gov/3regzes

I enjoyed this interview between Ezra Klein and vitalik.eth. Generally thoughtful, though I had two reactions: 1. I am quite surprised by how much more skeptical Ezra Klein is of someone like e.g. vitalik.eth who is so reflective and self-critical v. someone like

We need more interdisciplinarity in medicine. This should be a standard disclosure for fully informed consent

Still blows my mind there’s zero mainstream coverage of the only thing everyone in tech is talking about It’s like we just split the atom and everyone is talking about football

Words can harm. The distinction between speech and action is morally blurry. Law should consider intent and consequences of speech just as it does for actions

i wanna be loved unconditionally, but only because of my merits

Question for my #MedEd #MedTwitter friends, will prediction markets be used to track and calibrate clinical judgements, train trainees? Place bets here manifold.markets/VadimShteyler/…

Yes this is me nudging Manifold to consider this as a future direction :)

Went running with a buddy today at the beach near Crissy Field and a shark washed up right at our feet on the beach. We tried throwing it back in but it kept getting washed back up - my friend eventually carried it to the fishing pier & threw it off into deeper water.

🚨 ATTN #MedEd LOVERS! As a chief resident, I developed a 24-session HPE curriculum, based on the Educator's Portfolio & a passion for edu theory - it won a UC San Francisco curricular award, and now it's ready for addn'l audiences DM to learn more/Zoom enroll RT to amplify #MedTwitter

🧵 THREAD 🧵 The economist Robert Solow passed away a couple of weeks ago. So for my column this week I decided to write about... unconditional convergence. The idea that poor countries grow faster than rich ones. Does it happen in the real world? 😬 ft.com/content/e7e956…

Doctor quality matters a lot. Norwegian study finds that replacing one of the 5% worst general practitioners with one of average quality generates a social benefit of $9.05 million. Via Jonas Vlachos. cesifo.org/en/publication…

So thoughtful, rigorous, and complete. A very important contribution. But also such an inspiring model of excellent research for us starting out. So proud of Alexandre Kalimouttou Romain Pirracchio jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…