Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
The human mind is generally far more eater to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a…
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
…in the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together. Vinod Khosla
He disdained anyone who dismissed an issue as trivial. “Life is made up of a whole concentration of trivial matters,” he once said. “Certainly a computer is nothing but a huge concentration of trivial matters.” J. Presper Eckhert regarding his thoughts on building Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), widely considered to be the first computer.…
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. — M.C. Escher.
From a book on economics, complexity theory and economics, below are some good guidelines for managers and leaders developed by the Prussian army: A commanding officer should always give an order for an outcome, never for an action. This leads the person receiving the order to reflect on and interpret it with all his prior knowledge and in its…
Nevertheless, devaluing competition is a central theme of Thiel’s new book. He asserts that “capitalism and competition are opposites,” because “under perfect competition, all profits get competed away.” He exhorts entrepreneurs to seek out monopolies, concluding, “All happy companies are different: Each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are…
Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time. Even though we do have some health projects, and we’ll be doing that to a certain extent. But I think the regulatory burden in the U.S. is so…
“There are a lot of small data problems that occur in big data. They don’t disappear because you’ve got lots of the stuff. They get worse.” David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge university Via FT.
The experiences of this period…led me to adopt a theory of life, very unlike that on which I had before I acted, and having much in common with what at that time I certainly had never heard of, the anti-self- consciousness theory of Carlyle. I never, indeed, wavered in the conviction that happiness is the…