Self-proclaimed thought leader on awesomeness. #physician #blogger #philosopher Pathologically happy.

The center of my world
Joined November 2015
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Edward Snowden
@Snowden25 Dec 2022
He knows when you've been sleeping. He knows when you're awake. He knows this because your pattern-of-life can be inferred by looking at records of your phone's basic internet activity—called "metadata." This is the core of modern mass surveillance. He should be in jail.
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“If you can’t tell what you desperately need, it’s probably sleep.” - Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly)
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doctors have the weirdest guild. med school is more cutthroat than ibanking, then they go through a sorority match, are exploited as cheap labor in a training system designed by a cokehead, and the reward is being a highly paid amazon warehouse worker but for insurance companies
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My wife just said "if you hate everyone, you should eat something, and if you think everyone hates you, you should go to sleep" and I don't think I've heard a better life hack
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At the center of our planet is a solid sphere of iron & nickel the size of India (1,500mi across) that's as hot as the surface of the sun, and its interaction w the molten iron surrounding it generates the magnetic field that keeps our atmosphere from blowing away. pic: phys-org
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clickbait radiology report impressions would make reading the findings much more exciting. IMPRESSION: pneumonia as suspected, but you won’t believe the incidental finding hiding below the diaphragm!
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Time for some new CDC guidelines
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How to ace your radiology residency interview
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The price of 1 million lumen-hours since the Middle Ages. A lightbulb does that in ~600 hours, or about 2 months of daily usage. So multiply these prices by 6 to see how much it used to cost to use a lamp for one year. So many things we take for granted used to be such luxuries.
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A wise man once said to me. “You have a nail in your foot. You can practice mindfulness about the nail. Go to therapy and talk how the nail feels bad. Gratitude journal about how other people have more nails in their feet. Or you can take the nail out of your foot.”
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Andrew Weinstein
@AWeinstein16 Jan 2022
I just saw someone meticulously sanitize a shopping cart with antiseptic wipes before walking into the grocery store without a mask in case you’re wondering why the pandemic still isn’t over.
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Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan26 Dec 2021
"You spend half your life walking and sleeping. Never buy cheap shoes or a shitty mattress."
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Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom12 Dec 2021
10 common errors in reasoning that undermine arguments:
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Tomas Pueyo
@tomaspueyo9 Aug 2021
If you, like me, are tired of shallow and short-term reporting on China, and need to zoom out, I'd like to tell you a story. It's about an ancient, hidden force influencing its policies today, from Xinjiang to the Pacific, from Tibet to Beijing.
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Tomas Pueyo
@tomaspueyo9 Nov 2021
Why is Africa the way it is? Why are its countries where they are? The relationships between them The people? The deserts? Here are X to easily understand Africa better (politics, geography, history, demographics, climate & more)
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In an insane world a sane person appears insane.
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I’ve interviewed and managed over 2,000 people. Here are my 55 contrarian observations about humans. A thread... (1/x)
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First look at the only randomized trial of a booster vaccine data (Pfizer) today cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetin… 95% efficacy vs symptomatic infections, consistent across all age, sex, race, ethnicity and comorbid condition subgroups Benefit seen very early
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In the matrix, your success is determined by: Money Hierarchy Status Posessions Appearances Once you're free, it's based on: Health Freedom Creation Relationships Peace of mind
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It doesn’t seem to me that you can be pro physician mental health and be against the COVID vaccine. I mean, the toil of rampant COVID is a huge mental health concern.
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