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For those who find this story interesting and are unfamiliar with it, or would like a deeper dive, I just finished the book <em>Bad Blood</em> which tells the story. Highly recommend.
EDIT: Finished reading the book, not writing the book. Author is Pulitzer-Prize winning John Carreyrou of the Wall Street Journal. I am very much not him.
Bad Blood, it's by the WSJ reporter that broke the original story.
The craziest parts are about how blatantly she was lying, as well as about how absolutely batshit the "Sunny" guy is. There were so many red flags internally, but they threw millions at intimidating former employees.
Plug for the excellent book Bad Blood which chronicles the Theranos story by the reporter that broke it. They’re also making it into a movie with Jennifer Lawrence starring as Holmes.
If it repetitive and/or predictable it can be automated. Read Rise of the Robots. Starting to get scary.
My sister says it best "There just aren't that man good jobs to go around anymore".
The author Martin Ford in his Rise of the Robots says that automation, off-shoring and the loss of manufacturing have hollowed out the job market; fewer jobs more competition for whatever is left.
I'm a big fan of the book about the Theranos debacle, Bad Blood by John Carreyrou. It's a great case study on messiah complexes, bad leadership, and organizational dysfunction.
Amazon Link - can't recommend it enough, hard to put down and very well weaved together
Carreyrou owns the story - it's hard to describe just what he was up against. All the big names in SV didn't just love Holmes, they praised her, and then they trashed John and the WSJ for going after her.
It took a lot of courage to go against these people and to pursuit the truth in this story. Not to mention that the owner of the WSJ, Murdoch, was a huge personal investor in Theranos (and to his credit didn't intervene to kill the story when Elizabeth asked him to)
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup is really good too.
They should do an episode about Theranos, there's interesting tinfoil theories about why the deep state (Kissinger, George Schultz, and many Silicon Valley people) were interested in a new way to quickly analyze people's blood with just a few drops.
No group of people has a single "origin," and people move and breed and mingle so much that trying to pinpoint one is a fool's errand, especially as you go further back in history. It's maybe easier to think about the culture that way, but even that is a slow-growing amalgamation of different groups that weren't in contact and then were, or maybe were, then weren't, and were again, etc. And that will still be different for every individual.
Just before I started grad school, I read this book because like many people I'm fascinated by origin stories, but it lead to the correct if unsatisfying conclusion that there is no single origin for people, and that humans have been in contact with each other for greater distances for far longer than one would imagine, and so a single origin doesn't exist. It's pretty old by now, but still an interesting read.
Who says "impossible"? Experts in the field say it's decades away, and they are the ones I tend to believe.
As to why a bunch of people are creating startups, I suggest reading this
Read Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford, if you have a chance. It's not science fiction anymore.
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Elizabeth Holmes. I strongly recommend the book Bad Blood, it's all about her story. Even if you're someone who thinks reading is boring, it's an excellent read.
The person she is accusing is Sunny, her partner. Having read the book, it is obvious to me she is a oure blooded psychopath and is lying. Although that said, I find it hard to be sympathetic towards Sunny, as he was equally willing to lie and hurt people for profit. Neither of them are sorry for what happened, they are just sorry they got caught. There's a certain stupidity of the psychopath's brain, an irrational arrogance. Too stupid not to see how obvious it was they would get caught in the end. But they fooled many high profile people.
If you haven't read the book "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou it's a fantastic nonfiction telling of exactly what happened, and the story is even crazier than you can imagine. Holmes' ability to put seasoned, high-intelligent men under her spell -- people like George Schultz, David Boies, Jim Mattis -- is nothing short of magic. You wouldn't think it would be a page-turner, but it very much is!
Check out the audio book for the journalist who investigated this scandal.
This woman is the second in command at fake business. The first is Bernie Madoff
Bad Blood. https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X/ref=nodl_ It’s about a young, ambitious woman who starts a medical tech company with questionable ethics.... it’s so good! You almost want to admire her (as a woman), but realize she’s actually kinda evil.
I don't think you're asking the right researchers the right questions. Aubrey de Grey lays out his SENS strategy in Ending Aging the 8 or 9 different problems that need to be solved - cross-linking of proteins, mitochondria mutation, accumulation of senescent cells etc.
I forgot to mention reading - there are a ton of good books out there if you have an e-reader and a library account or don't mind older classics from Project Gutenberg or just buy them from Amazon.
I recently finished "Bad Blood" by John Carreyrou - https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X
Good luck with your plan - getting out of the house helps a lot. We live outside the city so it is no problems to walk outside.
Thanks for your input!
Yeah I totally understand about medical moving slowly, the regulatory process surrounding it seems like a science in and of itself.
Apparently engineering in the medical industry also pays the best on average than most conventional engineering industries? It could be because they tend to work in capital cities, or maybe because medical professions are generally pretty highly paid, and some of that recognition rubs off onto the engineers (I’d take advantage of that gravy train for as much as I could!)
Thats interesting regarding low disruption, but understandable when looking at barriers to entry. I just started reading this book Biodesign , a massive book but lays out literally everything about the medical device industry and how to innovate within it. Thoroughly recommended.
EDUCATED by Tara Westover was stuuuuuupendous!!!
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What about this? If you read it lmk how it is: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Secrets-Silicon-Startup/dp/152473165X
Read Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford. We are slowly being replaced by AI everyday.
> I’m just saying the government should step in and help, especially as we continue to automate jobs.
If only the gub'mint could exist without a private sector. Bitch slap me too hard and I ship the jobs overseas and mark 0 when its time for you to campaign for re-election. Its a real dilemma.
Read Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford. Pretty scary.
Read Rise of the Robots. It is really scary.
Read Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford. All of us can eventually be replaced by an algorithm.
Ending Aging would be probably good for bodily autonomy. Check out Aubrey de Grey's book too.
Read Ending Aging, by Aubrey de Grey if you didn't already. Introduction video here.
> But Theranos was specifically saying it could achieve the same outcomes with less blood on new equipment, and THAT is not yet possible.
There's a big difference between "that is not yet possible" and "nobody has built one yet".
From what I've been reading in excerpts from "Bad Blood", the obstacles they were facing weren't a matter of not possible, they were a combination of design mistakes and limitations imposed by Holmes' refusal to make any compromises. In normal companies, these kinds of problems get ironed out. The engineers say "sorry, this is the limit of what we can do in this about of space" and the management figures out how to adapt. In the case of Theranos, Holmes had over-promised so drastically that apparently they didn't feel that scaling it back was an option.
Making a unit as small as Holmes envisioned might have made it exponentially more difficult, but the idea of making a smaller cheaper unit wasn't impossible.