HEY! I'm hosting a panel on accelerating deep tech and manufacturing in India 🇮🇳 at IISc This Tuesday I'm at @AltCarbonIndia HQ alongside @ARIA_research ARIA is the UK government agency that enables high-risk research and moonshot projects. They're on a mission in India to support and invest in the frontier. If that's you, DM me! Looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces! Many thanks to team Alt Carbon! @adadithya @ananyabananyaa @SparshAgarwall

Grandma’s oncologists prefer to resolve queries over phone, even in borderline emergency cases, advising against visits. Many friends have recently told me horror stories about secondary infections at hospitals Whatever happened to HEPA filters, negative pressure rooms, far UVC and other bits of design to make these environments sterile?

I've attempted to map everything in oncology in a public website and open source repo for all. The site is trying to get all cancers, products, technologies, bottlenecks, people, startup opportunities with 1000+ ideas for upgrading the field. If you have a loved one with cancer and you are technical or can engineer, go take a look, file improvement requests or bugs or help with the open repo and make this the best open and free info resource for individuals, researchers and educational use. This should save people time, aid AI oncology projects and generate positive action. If you are not technical just complain in this thread about broken or annoying or things you want and I'll fix them live. Some of the interesting pages: Treatments: onco.cc/drugs A gallery of the molecules being used onco.cc/molecules/ And targets: onco.cc/targets/ The technologies in oncology: onco.cc/technologies/ 1100 ideas for helping oncology: onco.cc/ideas/ Bottlenecks on oncology: onco.cc/bottlenecks/ Open questions (LETS GO RESEARCH PEOPLE) onco.cc/open-questions/ Startup requests (LETS GO STARTUP PEOPLE) onco.cc/startup-requests/ Mechanics of cancer: onco.cc/mechanics Battlefronts: onco.cc/fronts/ Isotope supply: onco.cc/isotopes Key papers: onco.cc/key-papers Pipeline funnels: onco.cc/pipeline Cancer by type: onco.cc/cancers/ Institutional rankings: onco.cc/institutions/ The startups: onco.cc/startups/ Heros and heroines : onco.cc/heroes/ Key medical people: onco.cc/people/ Here is the project roadmap: onco.cc/roadmap/ Models and data sets: onco.cc/models/ There are other views as well, take a browse. Try making a PR if you have an upgrade to this on the repo here: github.com/judegomila/OnCo If you are biologically/medically minded and something is wrong, file a bug as well or say on the thread and we will get it fixed live. If this is a useful project star the repo and help get it calibrated. I've tried to add some other languages but I cannot speak them so tell me if that doesnt work well. I believe we will crack oncology and having total information dominance is key to the problem. Let the feedback flow!

⚠️ Public health advisory: There's a big mind-virus going around these past few months, victims mostly residing in and around metropolitan areas of Bangalore, but clusters of cases also observed in select other large cities including NYC, London, Berlin, and Dubai. The research community is on it, but in the interim, we propose calling the condition SFOsis25 (pronounced ess-eff-OH-sis). Subjects are observed to lose all conviction in themselves, their surroundings, their proximate peers and their work, for the sole reason of them not being geographically present in the San Francisco region of California, USA. The condition is frequently self-mis-diagnosed by subject as ambition or agency. Common symptoms include thinking that relocating to SF is the solution, regardless of what the problem is, sometimes even if there is no real problem. No customers? I just need to get sf users No revenue? I just need an O1 to go to sf No funding? I just need to be visible in sf Patients tend to forget that SF relocation is a supplement, not a medicine. A great booster supplement that can 3x all your vitals. It can probably 3x your fundraise, fundability, sometimes traction, and general momentum. If you get $1m in India, you can probably get ~$3m in SF, etc. But remember, 0 x 3 is still 0. If you think not being in SF is the sole cause of all your miseries, then you are already dead. Current prognosis is poor; most subjects follow a similar course: Stage 1: subject gets a B1/B2 Visa for "customer" or "investor" conversations, while spending time at hacker houses, Luma meet-ups and founder dinners (superspreader events where they talk to other Stage 1 subjects and post about it later). No customers in sight. Stage 2: subject realizes that they were previously just uncredentialed, but now they are uncredentialed and international. They announce a future announcement and that they are "building something in stealth." Unfortunately, this is the last recorded contact for the majority of cases. Stage3: remission is rare, only ~10% of subjects make it here. They recover slowly and unglamorously. Some recover in SF, where they discover SF is no medicine. They decide to stop being tourists, the hustle then goes on for years instead of weeks; they build credibility, reputation & network from scratch, and start doing the work. Some subjects arrive in SF only to discover that most people with 📍sf in their bio are actually not there at all, they are doing the real work too, while sitting in yelahanka new town. Their condition resolves in two more weeks, they recover and get back to work, wherever they can get momentum. If you are already symptomatic, let the virus run its course -- take the trip, eat the sponsored meetup pizza, spend the money. Time to recovery could be as short as a month. If you are asymptomatic, but have found yourself recently looking for airbnbs in sf, you have been exposed. Isolate from x the everything app immediately. There is no vaccine, but recovery could be very close. Get customers, talk to them, get the revenue, repeat until all symptoms are gone. If you are not showing any symptoms at all, congratulations you may have immunity, clinically also referred to as revenue.

Wonderful event today with @AlterMagIndia @sparshselim is a shockingly good quizmaster!

hospital signage that has the energy of dumbledore saying “the third floor corridor is out of bounds to anyone who does not wish to die a most painful death”

The guards at Manipal hospital have started to recognize me, and greet me in when I enter. Nice folks. May none of you become this familar...

yes blinkit i want my GLASS BOTTLE to be CUTTING EDGE

Even the simplest interchange is a semiotics challenge - every arriving commuter is picking between 2 departures and 4-8 station exits (since it’s also a road intersection) - there are 4 arrivals (2 lines x 2 directions) - there are 2 languages, if not 3. we will not even go down this - signage meant for each commuter lives in the same physical space - exit landmark names often mean nothing to commuters. (i literally just use phone compass while figuring out where to exit on new stations)

The entire Climate Sudio team is going to be there for the @AlterMagIndia launch at @_lagrangepoint this Sunday Come meet us & quiz us on brand building & how we think of narratives and positioning for deeptech companies. BIG bonus: meet @itsarnavb and quiz him on shaping LP!

I will be here on Sunday, if anyone wants to talk semiconductors post the quiz!

If you’re into - history - trivia - the eradication of pestilence come by Lagrange Point this Sunday for a new Alter Magazine piece!

In 2004, India and Pakistan played a cricket series billed as the ‘Friendship Series’. Before the match began, the captains of both teams appeared together with a plea. It had nothing to do with cricket. What was it? (Answer in the end) We’re hosting a general knowledge quiz, moderated by @sparshselim , at @_lagrangepoint . Thank you, @itsarnavb . Alter Issue #6 launch date and time: 📅 6th September (Sunday) 🕐 2:00 PM 📍 Lagrange Point, Indiranagar RSVP: luma.com/3h3swr00 Answer: ‘Bowl’ out polio.

how does one arrest (and undo) the following downward spiral worsening lung state → lower blood oxygen low blood oxygen → damage to cardiac muscles damage to cardiac muscles → worsening lung state

taking a moment to appreciate the guy building the startup treating dog cancer as part of YC calling himself ‘dogpatcher’

Don’t miss this one, it’s banger work