It’s effectively the start to Asimovs Foundation.

This group does a lot like this https://www.dpg.unipd.it/en/compcog/publications … so that’s tempting to think they keep trying things until something odd happens (kind of like physicists who look for 5th forces… eventually they find something odd but often it’s just an experimental issue they need to understand further).

Still in favor of EVs, just a curiosity that this is so negative for you.

I’d recommend it for grad school. But then yea time to move on.

Cold call or get introductions to their R&D leaders (principal researcher /director / VP). While connecting to something they or their company did, ask for a coffee meeting or phone call to learn more about their company and how it works.

Use this to Network network network. At some point a job will appear with interviews. Chances are good it’s with a good manager as they’re the ones taking time to build good teams and talent.

First no ads. Then ad free if you pay extra. Then “ad free” except half the shows have a “this show requires ads” bs and still have ads. Scummy flea ridden advertisers at their core.

Companies can improve by ensuring they don’t hire _because_ of whom someone knows. It should only ever let you get in the room to interview.

So practical advice of what to do: be human. Get to know people. Care. Your time to do this is not when you’re looking for a job, but when you’re in a job.

Boulder is a small college town of mostly affluent younger people. Memphis is an urban city in a hot climate that is older, poorer, and in the middle of the section of the US that has some of the worst health overall.

It’s not necessarily bad advice (setting and celebrating milestone goals on a long project is good). But it’s also not applicable to most cases of disengagement from the important things in life (aka burnout).

As a manager of people who know far more about the things they do than I do, my goal is to assist and ensure in the right place (for them and the org). It’d be foolish for me to hire peons who know less than me.

My college roommate was my early HN / YC introduction, so I’ve wandered about this digital space since 2004? or so. But never lived in the bay area til now. A work opportunity arose to place me here.

I’d like to spend the next year making some good connections IRL, particularly focused on biotech /life science tools (eg software and hardware). Any recommendations? Any local meetups that are worthwhile?

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Even as interest rates went up the VCs still had committed funds to distribute for a year to 18 months. Then the biotechs had runway for 1-2 years from that. Now that’s all gone, and they can’t raise their next series. In the meantime, C> plus synbio is recently having a lower win rate than hoped for.

That plus all the money that is there is all going to AI companies due to the shorter time to return / higher potential roic / hype.

Hypothesis 1: statisticians love good data sources, and with its many games, innings, and types of hits / pitches it’s a great source.

Hypothesis 2: makes you seem more interesting at dinner parties

hypothesis 3: a natural overlap of preferences