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BREAKING NEWS: Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, 31, has died after being shot at an event in Utah. An appalling assault on free speech and democracy. Charlie always welcomed debate, with anyone. This is disgusting, and heart-breaking. RIP Charlie. 🙏

"Limit yourself to the present." — Marcus Aurelius

James Cameron has written & directed 3 of the top 4 highest-grossing movies of all time (Avatar, Avatar: The Way of Water, and Titanic). Before he made movies, Cameron was a truck driver. He didn't go to film school. Instead, on the weekends, he would go to the library and.. "I'd pull any thesis that [University of Southern California] graduate students had written [on] anything that related to film technology," Cameron explained. "And for the cost of xeroxing (photocopying), I [got] all these doctoral dissertations [and] build up these big binders on how everything was done." "So I literally gave myself a full graduate course on film technology for about $120. I didn’t have to enroll in school because it was all there in the library. I’d set it up to go in like I was on a tactical mission, find out what I needed to know, and take it all home." Takeaway 1: When asked what motivated him to read those big binders full of information on filmmaking, Cameron said he was just following what excited him. "People seek out the information and knowledge they need," he said. "It's like a divining rod." The mythologist Joseph Campbell similarly talked about how reading is like "a divining rod," a way to find what you are uniquely attracted to and meant to do. "You’ve got to read," Campbell said. "Find [what] excites you. And if it doesn’t excite you…It’s not yours.” Takeaway 2: Of course, at some point, Cameron had to put the binders down and pick up a camera. When he eventually attempted to make his first movie, Cameron said, “It was a bit like a doctor doing his first appendectomy after having only read about it." The bestselling author and learning expert, Scott Young, has a great article with a great title, "Do The Real Thing." "When you examine case studies of people who have had major accomplishments," Scott writes, "you expect there to be some trick or shortcut...More often, however, the strategy used is dead simple: doing the real thing." Takeaway 3: Leonardo da Vinci used to sign off his letters, “Leonardo da Vinci, disscepolo della sperientia” ("disciple of experience"). He used to believe that one learns best by solely "doing the real thing." Over time, however, he evolved out of this belief and, biographer Walter Isaacson writes, "became a disciple of both experience and received wisdom." When you examine case studies of people who have mastered their craft, you usually find they are "disciples of both experience and received wisdom." Like Cameron, they read the library and they do the real thing. - - - “Those who are in love with practice without theoretical knowledge are like the sailor who goes onto a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whither he is going.” — Leonardo da Vinci Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

This morning, I ran some case scenarios for the @StanfordSurgery @OpNotes residents to help them prep for the oral boards. This afternoon, I tested GPT-4 AI on the same exact scenarios - word for word. The results were shocking. Buckle up...

I had a guy friend with a Ph.D in engineering ask me last week how women pee with a tampon in and this is why men shouldn’t be passing laws about women’s bodies.

NEW: A federal judge allowed UnitedHealth to acquire a clearinghouse of health insurance claims. The company says it won’t use the data to give itself an edge, even as some company documents suggest otherwise propublica.org/article/united…

Autumn nights in the outskirts of a small town

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Robust primary care is essential to the ability to transform health care in the U.S. Large employers and public health care purchasers are taking steps to implement 'advanced primary care.' Here's what they're doing: pbgh.org/8-steps-to-imp…

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When did ‘bitch’ become a term of endearment?

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Health care quality measurement rests on three questions: hbr.org/2022/09/how-to…

Unfortunately recycling plastic is basically just an oil company marketing strategy. Oil companies knew that if people thought recycling plastic did something, they would feel less guilty using it and buy more. It worked. npr.org/2020/09/11/897…

If Smith had pulled that on Chappelle, do you think Smith would have made it back to his seat before Chappelle made another joke about Jada?

Capybaras waiting for the traffic to slow before they cross the road 😮

Norway, 1953. Erling Jørgensen, a local journalist, visits the isolated parish of Hernes, accused by many of being a cult. His unpublished notes and photographs are the only remaining source on this group, and the events that culminated in its destruction.

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3) The sanctions on the Russia's Central Bank were declared by governments but *require* action from Fed + ECB 4) The U.S. Treasury provided Russian commercial banks with a diagram teaching them how to circumvent its own policy (yes, really...)

Universal principles of storytelling: - Must have a concept - Must have a theme - Must have a beginning, middle, and end - Must have a hero - Must have a villain - Must start with an inciting incident - Must escalate through act two - Must build to climax centered around clash

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Dawg why @chancetherapper absolutely eat on this country version of Hot in Herre

Here's my list of 12 papers in 2021 at the intersection of health care, medicine, economics and policy that surprised me, made me think, or were just damn clever. I'm just going to focus on non-COVID-19 papers - we have enough of that other stuff in our feeds. Off we go! /1