Dave-Thinking
@thinking_dave
High-effort conversation for truth-maximizing and FUN!
Spend less time listening to people talk about people, and more time listening to the people being talked about
I learned so much about so many important issues of the day; healthcare costs, GLP-1s, business, oh my! Worth a listen (and bought some $LLY)
Dave Ricks has been at @EliLillyandCo for 20% of its 150-year history. He came to the pub, poured his own Guinness, and gave us a 2-hour state of the pharma union: drug prices, clinical trials, patent clocks, the rise of generics, Chinese peptides, compounding pharmacies, the US…
What do you think?
“Poverty is an engineering problem.” — Elon Musk Will go down as one of the great quotes.
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My most amusing interaction was where the model (I think I was given some earlier version with a stale system prompt) refused to believe me that it is 2025 and kept inventing reasons why I must be trying to trick it or playing some elaborate joke on it. I kept giving it images…
OMG, such good insight into how our federal government works (or any sufficiently large organization without functional feedback loops?)! So politic free! ❤️
I just went deep on a 3-hour podcast with @ChrisWillx Modern Wisdom — what it’s really like working inside the U.S. government as the CIO of Treasury. If you’re interested in 👇 💰 How the government actually spends money 🧠 Why government tech is so broken (and how to fix it)…
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Inside DOGE, The IRS & How to Scam the US Government - Sam Corcos
Alex the parrot made a real impression on us kids from that time 🥰 "I want a shower! (in a Bostonian accent)" —Alex the parrot 🦜
Google founders explain their small beginnings and vision for the future (back then they said, "AI"!) youtube.com/watch?v=tldZ3l… "actually in college I built a inkjet printer out of Legos because I wanted to be able to print really big images I figured you know you could print…
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin interview on Starting Google (2000)
Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists.
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