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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” - Charles Dickens As spring approaches, I pack my bags again for what is becoming a yearly event—a trip to the UK to discuss robotics.

Hi folks! I’m almost done with my first semester of grad school—which is very exciting, but also means I’m in finals hell right now. Traditionally, I take the month of December off and republish some of the best interviews of the year, but I’m not sure if that’s the right move this year since I’ve been so sporadic with posting. Drop me a message about what you’d like to see for the month of December!

Nate Robinson was having a good start to the season. He was easily averaging 13 points off of the bench and was one of the New York Knicks' key bench guys in his second NBA season. He was playing well and feeling good with his game. But for whatever reason, on this particular night -on Nov. 20, 2006- he couldn’t get a shot off. He played 6 minutes in the first half and didn’t take a single shot.

Photograph by Andrew Paynter The San Francisco Standard published a piece on January 23, 2023, discussing the death of skateboarding icon Jake Phelps. Though Phelps passed in 2019, the details of his death were only recently revealed.  Written by David Sjostedt, the piece reveals acute fentanyl intoxication as the cause of death. The piece has sparked a lot of conversation online and in friend circles but I wanted to explore some parts of the piece that I feel were overlooked in order to keep the conversation going and raise awareness.

One of the little joys in exploring the engravings (or spells) on peasant furniture is figuring out the geometry – because it is all pure geometry. Complex patterns are easily picked apart with a pair of dividers. Even when the front of a chest looks like an asymmetrical mess, there is an inner logic. The patte… ncG1vNJzZmibmKe2tMDOqZ%2BeqqOYtbit0bNlrK2SqMGir8pnmqilX6V8rbHTrGStmZygeqKuzq6rZq%2BfobNuwMSeq6E%3D

Today’s letter is the transcript of a conversation between Reed Jobs of Yosemite (then at Emerson Collective) and Lloyd Minor, the Dean of the Stanford School of Medicine. In this conversation, the pair discuss how the virtual world has affected the healthcare industry, what we can learn from the tech revolution, the loss of trust in scientific institutions, why we need to be more open about uncertainty, developing new therapies and diagnostics and bringing them to patient care, hotbeds of innovation outside the US, Theranos, liquid biopsies and fraud, lessons from Steve Jobs on being honest with your customers and your people, leveraging philanthropy and funding to tackle threads from cancer to Covid, and building a biomedical ecosystem capable of deploying new technologies to solve the future’s most pressing problems.

Hi there! Welcome to A Letter a Day. If you want to know more about this newsletter, see "The Archive.” At a high level, you can expect to receive a memo/essay or speech/presentation transcript from an investor, founder, or entrepreneur (IFO) each edition. More here. If you find yourself interested in any of these IFOs and wanting to learn more, shoot me a DM or email and I’m happy to point you to more or similar resources.

Hi there! Welcome to A Letter a Day. If you want to know more about this newsletter, see "The Archive.” At a high level, you can expect to receive a memo/essay or speech/presentation transcript from an investor, founder, or entrepreneur (IFO) each edition. More here. If you find yourself interested in any of these IFOs and wanting to learn more, shoot me a DM or email and I’m happy to point you to more or similar resources.

I am reasonably certain we had two different red racer snakes in the house last week. TFW you walk into your bathroom and someone’s already in there July 15, 2019 I do not intend to boast. I am well aware, in this time of deepening inequality, that there are some households in this country with only one snake, and that even more unimaginably, there is a small but significant proportion of unfortunate households with no snakes at all.