A lighter edition this week as the family traveled for Spring Break. Normal service should resume next week.
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company:
His start-up, Medvi, a telehealth provider of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, got 300 customers in its first month. In its second month, it gained 1,000 more. In 2025, Medvi’s first full year in business, the company generated $401 million in sales.
Mr. Gallagher then hired his only employee, his younger brother, Elliot. This year, they are on track to do $1.8 billion in sales.
A $1.8 billion company with just two employees? In the age of A.I., it’s increasingly possible.
How should you change your life decisions if we are being watched by alien drone probes?: His take?
The most plausible decision however is to slightly lower your level of ambition.
I thought the correct response was the opposite. Think of it along the lines of immigration - one very common path for an ambitious person from India / China / Africa is to immigrate to the West. Do big things there or learn and go back to do big things at home. An advanced alien world opens up a whole new frontier. But here's a much better answer:
I, like most people, used to think that UFOs were ridiculous and in the same category as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster. Nutcases believed in them because they wanted it to be true, to feel special, and to enjoy confirmation bias.
Now I feel that I owe the UFO nuts an apology. I’m not claiming they’ve been definitively proven right, but evidence has come out that they don’t belong in the same category as other conspiracy theorists.
This means I was globally miscalibrated. My model of the world was too narrow, so I should broadly update to be more open-minded about crazier things.
A lot more at the link.