Words about science and hiking
A truism among early-stage investors is that “you don’t invest in technologies, you invest in people”. The idea is that a smart, resourceful team will find a way to succeed, even if their technology crashes hard on the rocks of reality. Great leaders, the thinking goes, will always find a way forward. That’s not a Read More …
I watched the HBO documentary on the Theranos disaster last night. Well, I watched the first half before I fell asleep. That’s not a criticism of the movie; the information transfer rate of movies (and podcasts) is just much, much slower than reading and the visuals weren’t sufficiently arresting to compensate for the slow rate Read More …
I read Bad Blood, John Carreyou’s account of the Theranos fiasco over Christmas and must say it changed my conception of what went down there. I’d written a fair amount about Theranos over at Quora (see here), and was clearly much too sanguine as to what was going on. I thought they were just at Read More …
Well, here’s two things that I hope will happen: Science journalists stop being such suckers for facile storylines. I mean, most of the Theranos coverage amounted to “Brilliant college dropout disrupts trillion-dollar industry with this one weird trick!”. They should aspire to writing stories better than the banner ads on their webpages. The whole notion Read More …