attempt to increase the use of the Scientific Method in HealthCare (more)

Not the same as Evidence Based Medicine? The problem with EBM is, rather, that it ranks basic science principles as being on either very lowest rung or the second lowest rung on the various hierarchies of evidence that EBM promulgates as the way to evaluate the reliability of scientific evidence to be used in deciding which therapies work. The most well-known of these is the that published by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, but there are others. Eddie Lang, for instance, places basic research second from the bottom, just above anecdotal clinical experience of the sort favored by Dr. Jay Gordon (see Figure 2). Duke University doesn’t even really mention basic science; rather it appears to lump it together at the very bottom of the evidence pyramid under “background information.” When I first started to appreciate the difference between EBM and SBM, I basically had to be dragged, kicking and screaming, by Steve and Kimball, to look at these charts and realize that, yes, in the formal hierarchies of evidence used by the major centers for EBM, basic science and plausible scientific mechanisms do rank at or near the bottom. I didn’t want to accept that it was true. I really didn’t. I didn’t want to believe that SBM is not synonymous with EBM, which would be as it should be in an ideal world. (more)

Science-Based Medicine writer

aka China Project... The book is "loosely based"[9] on the China–Cornell–Oxford Project, a 20-year study—described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology"—conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford. T. Colin Campbell was one of the study's directors. (more)

Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study, aged between 18 and 39... Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, or had been exaggerated, or they weren’t sure (more)

Pondering what Twitter's long-form efforts should look like (more)

Twitter is reinventing itself. Twitter recently announced that it’s going to be building a lot of new things into its product: there’s Twitter Spaces, which is a live audio feature very similar to the red-hot Clubhouse app. There are Twitter Fleets, which look like Snap and Instagram Stories. Twitter just acquired Revue, which is a newsletter product similar to Substack. And it also announced something called Super Follows, which will let people pay creators on Twitter for special content. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 16/52: Goal Clarity (and Embracing Different Perspectives). Twelve people look at a proposed quarterly goal. They respond. Note the differences (you will inevitably encounter all of these in your career) (more)

Tom Jarvis: What's next for Twitter? The platform has been looking to turn attention away from politics and back on the product. First they launched “Fleets” – Twitter’s answer to Stories on other platforms, which it launched at the back-end of 2020. (more)

Phyle (Greek: φυλή, romanized: phulē, "tribe, clan"; pl. phylai, φυλαί; derived from ancient Greek φύεσθαι "to descend, to originate") is an ancient Greek term for tribe or clan.[1] Members of the same phyle were known as symphyletai (Greek: συμφυλέται), literally: fellow tribesmen.[2] They were usually ruled by a basileus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyle

David De Ugarte on the steps in creating a new Phyle (Tribe, (more)

Roam Is a Note-Taking Tool, and a Dream of a Better Self. Kyle Stratis loves to learn, but like most people, he doesn’t remember everything he reads. So he has to take lots of notes... he became a software engineer, he’d jot things down in a text editor — handy for a quick brain dump, but lousy for seeing connections.. He fell into a creative rut for about a year. And he started looking for something that would help him dig his way out. (more)

Brian Balfour: Product Systems. As a team grows, there are different teams with different charters they focus on. An immense amount of effort goes into clearly defining those charters, minimizing overlaps, setting success metrics and more. But no matter what you do, everything is connected. (product development) (more)

David Kadavy: I Took a Week Off. Three Years Later, I Sold to Google. Three years prior, I cleared my schedule and declared what I call a “Week of Want.” I gave myself an entire week to work on whatever I wanted. I had no plan at the time — that was the point of my Week of Want. Three years later, here I was getting a surprise paycheck, thanks to that Week of Want. (more)

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A cash transfer is a direct transfer payment of money to an eligible person.[1] Cash transfers are either unconditional cash transfers or conditional cash transfers. They may be provided by organisations funded by private donors, or a local or regional government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_transfer (more)

Human capital is the stock of habits, knowledge, social and personality attributes (including creativity) embodied in the ability to perform labour so as to produce economic value... The original idea of human capital can be traced back at least to Adam Smith in the 18th century. The modern theory was popularized by Gary Becker, an economist and Nobel Laureate from the University of Chicago, Jacob Mincer, and Theodore Schultz. As a result of his conceptualization and modeling work using Human Capital as a key factor, the 2018 Nobel Prize for Economics was jointly awarded to Paul Romer, who founded the modern innovation-driven approach to understanding economic growth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital (more)

Meta: Less Wrong essay http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/ (more)

An income share agreement (or ISA) is a financial structure in which an individual or organization provides something of value (often a fixed amount of money) to a recipient who, in exchange, agrees to pay back a percentage of their income for a fixed number of years. ISAs have gained prominence as an alternative to the traditional student loan system in American higher education, and a number of private companies now offer ISAs for a variety of purposes, including as a funding source for college tuition.[1] ISAs are often considered to be less financially risky to a borrower than a traditional private student loan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_share_agreement (more)

book by Dani Kollin, ISBN:0765318997. An interesting SmallWorld SciFi. Shows how BigCo (GCI) becomes indistinguishable from BigGov (because both are needed to enforce a particular set of Game Rules). So that you can no longer define Freedom just in terms of government constraints, but overall system-generated constraints on your choices. (BigWorld, monopoly) (more)