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Riding Lake Tahoe
My first serious mountain bike ride in 7 years. With Florian Brand (of atai in Berlin) Lake Tahoe is amazing, one of the world’s top spots for it.
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Photon Fun with a 3x Fiber-Optic-Taper
This FOT is made from 90 million optical fibers fused and stretched. It magnifies whatever it is on top of by 3x without lenses. Each fiber is like an independent pixel, stretched 3x. Notice the "URY" magnified from the MERCURY on the book cover., It’s best seen in this short video I took. This is… Read More
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The end of the line for a historic vehicle — the last Model S
Here is my new Model S, the last of its kind, in the same Signature Red as the very first one (which I have since donated to the Petersen Automotive Museum). Photo by Tesla at the Fremont factory. It’s the car that changed the world. I have compiled some reviews from its 2012 release… and… Read More
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Pumpkinseed Bio wafer of nano photonics sensors and founding team
🐠 at Future Ventures. The colorful wafer contains billions of optical nanosensors for sequencing peptides and proteins. Each amino acid in the protein chain is read sequentially from its unique vibrational signature. Protein sequencing has proven to be a more difficult challenge than DNA sequencing, but Pumpkinseed made it accurate and fast with a huge… Read More
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The Early Days of Pumpkinseed Bio 🐠 with Stanford Prof. Jen Dionne
Everything we know about biology has been built on an incomplete picture. DNA tells us what a cell might do. Proteins tell us what it’s actually doing. Pumpkinseed announced their $20M Series A today (led by Future Ventures and NfX) to build the platform that reads proteins directly—for the first time. Proteomics has always faced… Read More
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On the Level with Paul Meegan
“You can’t leisure yourself to meaning.” — LucasArts & Epic Games President Paul Meegan, reflecting on six months of attempted retirement before reenlisting the core Fortnite team to pursue a new learning-tech startup with the mission to help every person maximize their potential and live a life of meaning. Fortnite is the compelling collaborative game… Read More
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Genomics pioneer Craig Venter has passed
"If you want immortality, do something meaningful with your life." — J.C. Venter (1946-2026) So many memories… I served on the board of his Synthetic Genomics for over a decade and invested in four of his companies. He was indefatigable and pitched me on his latest new startup just last month. He was the first… Read More
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AI and the Universal Innervation of the Economy
Stanford just published a short video interview on the inherent inscrutability of AI, constraining attempts at alignment, control and interpretability. TLDR; it’s more akin to parenting a teenager than intelligent design.
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Saturday Signing of the Psychedelics EO
in the oval office today; official White House photo
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With Dr Oz and the founders of VETS
… just after the psychedelics EO signing in the Oval Office. A wonderful moment for America’s 250th… healing the lasting trauma from Nixon’s politicized “war on drugs”
