Technical, Macro, and Marketing Musings
For years, twitter has knowingly had millions of fake users, way too many bots, and have done nothing to little about it as for fear of investors’ reactions. When politics gets in the way of killing the elephant in the room….that’s a major way companies die slow painful deaths. There’s 2000+ twitter apps and a […]
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Notes on Digital Methodology In the last 2 months, I added about 300 people in the healthcare/biopharma world on LinkedIn and connected with about 60 of them. I had my assistant add people on LinkedIn with custom templated messaged. I followed up with them using mixmax and got them booked on my calendar. Schlepping in Healthcare I sat […]
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tl;dr: Give scientists long term sustained cash. I sat through Obama’s moonshot Cancer talk again. I think his sentiment is in the right place, but his scientific problem /organizational competency is completely misplaced. Pushing large cash into this problem is unlikely to make the problem easier. 2013, POTUS pushed the BRAIN initiative. 2015, POTUS pushed […]
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My big scientific blunder… I wanted to believe something good about Theranos., the company that raised a few hundred million dollars from premiere investors of silicon valley. I wanted to believe that humanity had found its next great Landsteiner. It turns out that my perception of the problem in blood diagnostics was completely wrong. Turns out, I […]
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N Nitrogen sourcing is a sufficiently tough problem. This blog post by Ron Shigeta is one of the most well written macro posts on the topic that I’ve read. Here’s why: Nitrogen is important for farming. The Haber Bosch process unlocked our ability to source Nitrogen. Before the Haber Bosch, Nitrogen production and sourcing […]
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I encourage everyone to write a blog post about their unconventional or non-common beliefs. If you do, feel free to share it with me: @datarade. Intellectual Property is counterproductive to the advancement of humanity and we should abolish it. The golden ticket is for great markets to reward prolific monopolists, not oligarchal non-creators. The riches should belong […]
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In the USA, we have: 7000 taxi medallions. 8 Major Film Studio Companies. (‘The Majors’) 15 Large Banks. 3 Major Radio Stations. 3 Major Labels. 2 Major Ticketing companies. 2 Major broadband providers. 2 Major telcos. ~150 MVNOs. (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) 10 Major Movie Theater Chains. 4 Big Accounting Companies. (“The Big 4.”) 10 […]
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I analyzed over 2000 VP of Sales Profiles on LinkedIn. I was trying to edit my lackluster LinkedIn Profile to look more like a VP of Sales profile. I always try to make data driven decisions. Heuristics for Becoming a VP of Sales for Brown/Black People. Use the NamSor API to optimize for northern European names. I think I could change my […]
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I was sitting in a small room with a group of Israelis, Americans, and Russians for our weekly meetings. As people continued talking passive aggressively, an elephant appeared in the corner. It started growing larger and almost as if by magic, people started moving around to accommodate the elephant even to the point of discomfort. […]
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