Stealing that
02.03.2026 17:59
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Stealing that
When we originally shared it!
bsky.app/profile/royb...
First one, and all the rest, you can find here!
thisisnotadvice.work
Graham is also a founder (MDCalc, a medical calculator used by two-thirds of U.S. doctors, and now Offcall, a company Bloomberg Beta backed), a podcaster (How I Doctor with Dr. Graham Walker, available wherever you listen to this!), and honest about what's broken in healthcare and what might fix it.
Why does medicine eat so much paperwork? What do doctors actually get paid, and why does the specialty you choose matter more than people realize? How do doctors die differently than the rest of us?
How do you decide to become a doctor in the first place, when you have to jump through so many hoops? What does it feel like to walk into a room and meet someone who is terrified, and have to immediately figure out what's wrong with them?
I wanted to understand what it actually means to be a doctor – in Graham’s case, in the emergency room. Not the TV version (maybe a little like The Pitt, but definitely not Grey’s Anatomy).
So we went there.
Our *second* episode is out, and it's with someone I've had the pleasure of working with: @drgrahamwalker.com, ER physician at Kaiser San Francisco and founder of Offcall.
If you want to understand a whole occupation from snout to tail, a how-to that you can apply to your work, whatever it may be... that's what we do on the This Is Not Advice podcast. The episodes are... long. Prepare yourself :)
open.spotify.com/episode/2eu4...
Welcome our first guest on This Is Not Advice, neuroscientist at UChicago, Bobby Kasthuri.
open.spotify.com/episode/2nk8...
These are the kinds of conversations I'm fortunate to have; the people I’m fortunate to learn from. These will be long episodes. Absurdly long. They’re two (maybe three… four...) hour episodes, released once a month. Like everything I try, it’s an experiment. I hope you'll come along for the ride.
The premise remains the same: most advice is autobiographical. People tell you what worked for them, hoping it'll work for you. It usually doesn't. What you actually need is their story. Or a hypothesis. A prompt. Something to consider, then decide for yourself.
A neuroscientist on finding ideas and navigating "the system." A working painter on the inner life of making art, and the financial realities of a creative career. An ER doctor on diagnosing someone they just met, and why healthcare needs change. And more… taking the time to understand it all.
I wanted to ask successful people granular questions about how they actually do their jobs. Not the highlight reel. The real stuff, from snout to tail.
Well, the project is evolving again, because I realized that I want to go deeper with people who are truly extraordinary at what they do. So… This Is Not Advice is now a podcast. (Fine, a "pre-recorded, long-form video and audio conversation mini-series experience,” if you must.)
First there was #thisisnotadvice: quick videos I started during lockdown in 2020, each one someone’s perspective on a dilemma about work. The videos turned into a written guide about how to work, and that became a weird little community project. thisisnotadvice.work
I need to tell you something, and please hold your eyerolls.
A venture capitalist started a podcast.
I know, I know… hear me out.
open.spotify.com/episode/2nk8...
Heard this term for the first time today on a call -- Waymo redlining.
How self-driving cars avoid low-income areas, or the companies avoid offering services in those areas, which tend to of course be communities of color.
www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comm...
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
All of you are deliberately mischaracterizing what Sarah Hurwitz was saying about Holocaust education. Do better.
And thank you to our co-sponsors, HBCUvc, Silicon Valley Bank, @burklandassoc.bsky.social, Bloomberg Engineering and Philanthropies!
Is your startup too small / young / cash-strapped to throw a holiday party?
We're throwing one for you... Startup Festivus on Fri 12/5 in SF, now in its 11th year. 🎉
Ask to join, or share it with your favorite founder: bit.ly/StartupFesti...
Because we try things here and there. I love posting here, and LinkedIn also works well. Sometimes I post less in general, sometimes more.
Also group chat is where I post a lot now.
Oh shoot you are so right. Back to posting more actively because you said that
TY!
Taken straight from our manual, by the way: github.com/Bloomberg-Be...
We use that NPS as the most important metric to drive our fund's choices.
(We would share our Net Promoter Score here, but we don’t want our founders to feel we are using their feedback to market ourselves.)
NPS! Once a year we ask all our founders to do a short anonymous survey to give us feedback on what we can do better. We calculate a Net Promoter Score as part of this.
Founders are our customers. Our North Star metric, by definition, can’t be “capital returned to our LP.” So what is it?
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