the white pill—used to describe those who look at the challenges of our day and feel instinctively that moments of change can be moments of possibility. Their feelings and actions are rooted in hope.
One of the hardest and loneliest battles you’ll have to fight as you work to build the life you want is maintaining unwavering self belief that you will make it despite having *nothing* to show for it over a 2-3 year period before you see “overnight” success. You’ll feel like an imposter telling others what you’re building and who you believe... See more
Circling around all of this continues to be a more fundamental shift of how people are paying attention to biology and their own health.
While patient-directed care broadly is an increasingly consensus trend (borne out of the rise of the quantified self of yesterday and a large number of growing podcasters/authors today) the... See more
So why quit? Three reasons. First, I’ve felt for a few years now that the startups I’m seeing don’t seem so much like progress as just shopkeeping. This isn’t a dig: there’s money to be made razoring a thin slice off a huge market, and there’s certainly less risk in that than there is building a market from scratch. But it’s just not that... See more