Pharmaceuticals in the US. Fairly early in my career, get paid just short of $100k/year. All it took was getting a doctorate and selling a little bit of my soul.

Sometimes I miss academic research. But at the end of the day I’m getting paid about 4x as much while working 1/2 the hours, by my estimate I’m 8x as happy now. Plus, there’s something to be said for working on projects that actually affect people’s lives instead of overstating the impacts of my research to compete for a dwindling pool of federal grants. Seeing the policy changes in the US this year, I’m very glad I left academia but I’m not convinced I’m 100% safe from changes made at the FDA.

I kept a few recipes from a subscription I was gifted. Honestly, replacing the missing ingredients has been more fun than cooking the boxed meals.

Well shit. That makes a lot of sense.

No no, they listen. How do you think the “Hey Google” feature works? It has to listen for the key phrase. Might as well just listen to everything else.

I spent some time with a friend and his mother and spoke in Spanish for about two hours while YouTube was playing music. I had Spanish ads for 2 weeks after that.

I’ve raged and seethed about Neuralink so many times. There are so many obstacles needed to be overcome for a true Brain Computer Interface to work. Unless the company has magically solved some of the hardest problems in bioengineering, they’re just sacrificing monkeys for sport.

The Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes the laws governing the Food and Drug Administration. These laws are written in the blood of the exploited and vulnerable, like the victims of the Tuskeege Syphillis Experiment. Many of these regulations are specifically written to keep pharmaceutical and food companies from cutting corners in product development, testing, and manufacturing.

It’s not a necessary disruption. It’s going to kill a lot of vulnerable people.

Is it a physical copy? If so, it’s likely related to flame retardant used in its manufacturing.

Growing up, sure, I enjoyed Hunger Games and a handful of others. But my least favorite trope of all time is the Myers Briggs Proxy that Sorts You Into a Clique Forever. Houses, Guilds, Colors, whatever it is, I hate it. But that’s just my personal taste.

There’s so much great fiction out there. I’m a sucker for a sci fi or fantasy epic series.

I’m willing to try any book - if I can find it at my local library. But, if I’m not captured within the first couple of chapters, I’ll stop reading.

Last book I dropped was Red Rising. It was recommended to me by a friend who I convinced to start reading Sanderson, so i figured it was worth a try. Turns out I’m not a fan of the edgy YA fiction, Hunger Games but Horny and Violent genre.

I love my Etymotics. Bit pricey but so comfortable. I wore them for years as a musician and now for live shows.