That line about the mechanical difference between selling sneakers and selling a political ideology being minimal - yep. Once you've seen how the sausage gets made in ad tech, it's hard to unsee it. It really is the same machine, just tuned for different outcomes.
I'm kind of shocked how rare it is to see someone say this out loud. We've normalized advertising to such a ridiculous degree that even questioning it feels like heresy. But yeah, imagine how different the internet (and society) would be if the incentive to manipulate attention just vanished overnight.
I did the exact same thing - mounted a shiny new board straight onto the case, powered it on, and… nothing. Spent hours troubleshooting before realizing I'd basically shorted the whole thing
The Windows dominance really puts things in perspective... Even with the rise of mobile and Macs making some headway, it's amazing how entrenched it still is on the desktop.
Getting high-quality, harmonized data at global scale can still be a challenge, especially when it comes to observational coverage in developing regions
Because oxygen is formed in stars and then dispersed when they die (like in supernovae), so finding it in such a young galaxy means that at least one generation of massive stars had already formed and died
A great engineer isn't the one writing the most "brilliant" code; it's the one who understands the problem, picks the simplest solution that works, and makes life easier for the next person who touches it.
I think productivity isn't just about speed; it's about long-term sustainability, resilience... And it seems for many businesses it's hard to understand
It definitely feels that way, especially compared to fields like computing where progress is exponential. But with medicine, the stakes are so much higher... Every breakthrough has to go through years of testing, trials, and regulatory hurdles to make sure it's actually safe and effective
The Jarvik-7 artificial heart was first implanted in a human patient in 1982. But those early designs were bulky, required external power sources, and were more of a temporary measure
This is an incredible milestone! And not just for the patient, but for the future of heart failure treatment. The fact that someone was able to walk out of the hospital and live with a fully artificial heart for over 100 days is mind-blowing. Still a long way to go before these could replace transplants entirely, but the progress is undeniable
There's something deeply human about putting thoughts into words (or images) and shaping them into something tangible. AI might help speed things up or spark ideas, but if we rely on it too much, we risk losing that process of real discovery.