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Similar cross over with Walk this Way leading to Run DMC’s mass adoption. Where the guy loves music and knows how to sell it.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/walk-this-way-run-dmc-a...

Or the need to get hip hop understood by the masses through a familiar lens - ergo the Toys in the Attic hook into Walk this Way with Run DMC who he had to convince those washed up rock stars would help them sell more records.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/walk-this-way-run-dmc-a...

I’m a neuroscientist and I don’t feel qualified to weigh in. The problem of any complex problem today is the niche nature of expertise.

It’s easy to forget how difficult learning is, for us as individuals and as flocks in formation. Pick any topic and it’s likely it took you years to learn well. So simply switching out beliefs embedded in that topic requires overwriting years of patterns and synapses in sync.

Where Kuhn is so helpful in understanding that even scientists have immense difficulty, if not vigorous myopia, stuck with wrong beliefs. Paradigm shifts with funerals is easier over decades than getting scientists to evolve their models.

Web advertising with a detailed sign up page is the best way to do that? Seems like a bunch of video ads would be more effective for that.

What are they aiming to accomplish?

You’d think they get that in free media.

Jokes aside, assisted living homes are exactly the place where XR is finding adoption - entertainment and healthcare for people who can’t readily leave.

How can we say it doesn’t exist at birth? The newborn has wants and needs and can recognize their mother’s voice. The need to be fed and comforted soon follows. Chest on chest time is now recognized as critical to human attachment in the days and weeks after birth. Isn’t the ego just building on those basic needs to be satiated and loved?

Surprised that they don’t mention Kalbi as a dish Americans love. It’s just grilled ribs with a sweet sauce and available at Trader Joe’s.

My body stopped making Vitamin D on its own. Taking D3/K supplements was a life saver and for seasonal affective disorder. And now I seem to be back to typical levels with just sun exposure.

Counterpoint: When we were developing a smartwatch for brain health, I was invited to give a talk to the Apple watch team in 2013. What I talked about was up to me and from the questions asked I was able to see behind the curtain of what the team was working on. In follow ups we talked about the science and user experiences but wasn’t asked to divulge any secrets. Had Watch launched with or included the capabilities, maybe I’d feel differently, but I understand in the time since why brain health is so challenging even for the big companies. I pushed them to include blood oxygenation for athletes given that application would lower component costs for us with patients. And yet, says a lot, the team took years to get that right.

By contrast EKG and PPG were already being commoditized by the time Watch included those capabilities. AliveCor and Valencell do both really well, but the protectability is not as deep a competitive moat.

Peer review is still a good way to ensure some semblance of quality. But there are clearly better ways.

20 years ago Neuroimage was the journal researchers went to when their results were borderline unpublishable. Amazing how these publications manage to stay in business, no surprise they are raising publication fees paid by authors. While it’s good to see editors vote with their feet, there are plenty of academics who will line up to take their place to burnish their CVs.

Keep in mind that approvals don’t need to be prescription based. Consider the value of quality assurance and drug labeling. Tylenol can readily kill and the importance of knowing what’s in something. Therapists don’t have the authority to prescribe but could still support a session.

I’ve been surprised that these types of labels are not required more broadly, digital health is another that’s needed. That said the nutrition labeling has gotten a bit too complex imho. I suppose it’s easier to add than subtract, but seems easy to include an QR code to mandate links for more information.

The chart here shows the problem:

https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-8...

TVs have been so commoditized, if you were a TV manufacturer, how would you stay in business in the next thirty years?

Great read, love the story of entrepreneurship meets American culinary cross overs. Are there other examples of this phenomenon around the world, where street food is commoditized and makes literal billionaires?

From leftover production and processing of grains after the war. Because after you grind grains to dust to maximize storage, you have to add back in flavors and vitamins and sugar then prioritize shelf life with preservatives.

The marketing of course ignoring that eating anything 2-3 hours before sleep is bad for sleep quality. Great area for better research, start with the good enough wearables and into brain monitoring to show impacts of cognitive functions the next day.

Do you have an example of someone being arrested by Chinese intelligence on foreign soil, let alone due to TikTok data?

Really helpful, thank you. Still don’t see the problem, other than the need to educate kids on digital hygiene. But like anything, I bet they already know the harms of overconsumption.

Yeah, failing to see how TikTok is any different or worse than Facebook or Google. Could someone enlighten me?

1000% - just wish they’d drop their fees so that more companies would see the benefits versus rolling their own.

Brilliant find, throws in the reference to DEC, where she had just joined.

Is this all Adobe developed or they are relying on partners?

The research on peanut butter puffs in Israel convinced us small amounts were far better for our young kids than avoiding completely.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02782-8