chevman

"The difference between loneliness and solitude is who you are alone with and who made the choice."

I was told this 3 weeks in to an Outward Bound course in the colorado wilderness when I was 18.

It has stayed with me my whole life now (i'm 43!) and I think of it often.

Dev/engineering timeline is never the long pole in getting new healthcare products to market.

Funny timing. Was helping my father in law troubleshoot his WiFi this weekend and came across this article.

All his wireless printers and his really old iPad (I think gen 1 or 2) refused to connect suddenly a couple weeks ago. No apparent changes or new devices on his network.

Turned out Comcast pushed an update to his wireless gateway that enabled ‘managed security functionality’. Part of this included forcing WPA3 security on all devices.

Once I figured out how to set it back to WPA2 for the 2.4 ghz network, all the old devices reconnected.

Good times :)

This is code that the price of entry at a minimum is an even more expensive dinner ;)

Yes, a lot of "strategic partnerships", "joint ventures" and the like.

Just wait until your BigCo is buying stuff from the consultants/SIs and Adobe/SFDC/IBM/etc and they are all YOUR CLIENTS as well buying tons of services from your company in a totally different market.

"Balance of trade" is the term you'll soon learn about in deal negotiations :)

At the scale of Amazon sized companies in the US, healthcare costs become part of the strategic equation of how you manage your business.

Get large enough (you will have moved beyond fully insured plans to self ensuring your population long ago) and you'll continue to look at opportunities further down the supply chain in actual healthcare delivery itself to better manage, forecast, and optimize costs.

Primary care and Rx are usually the first place to go.

My guess is this is as much about that dynamic, as it is about buying some good leadership (look at the board/leadership of One Medical and you'll see many familiar faces if you are in heathcare/plan/PBM space).

Will be very interested to see if they keep this mainly in house, or if they begin to scale beyond that.

I'm in corp land and this to me reads as the CIO using external PR to push internal agendas.

Are they really going to close all their on-prem datacenters in the next 2 years? Maybe.

More likely, this is a way to build momentum around the transition to cloud. Not a bad strategy, and not uncommon from what I've seen in the enterprise.

Just like we have exponential growth, we need to have exponential implosion!

I would argue, more lessons to be learned on the way down :)

Wait till you find out how much it actually costs doctors/providers to render some of these services!

Do you like 90% margins? Doctors sure do! :)

Low latency fiber internet + network wide pi-hole ad blocking + new Apple silicon based laptop makes the entire web feel instantaneous! It’s really quite remarkable.

Pro tip - always wait until the money is in your bank account!

From their site:

"We work with Truepill pharmacy, our trusted fulfillment partner to fill your prescriptions. Truepill has a team of accredited pharmacists who will ensure your medication is safe and delivered to your doorstep on time."

Oh, and guess who owns most of TruePill???

Hint - https://www.optumventures.com/portfolio

There is very little new in the PBM/Pharmacy world from what I've seen, just more layers of redirection and subterfuge :)

We got a Dohm when my son was born. They generate the noise mechanically and are super soothing:

https://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Classic-White-Noise-Machine/dp...

Realized after we got it that it's what many of our massage therapists have used over the years in their offices.

My son's is 8 years old and going strong, used every night for peaceful sleep :)

Im not sure how much more clear I can be.

The example I linked, Amerilink data set, I have a copy of (via my company), sitting on our internal corp NAS drive, and it is 100% raw data with PII. Can query on name, mailing address, DOB, etc. We have an unrestricted license that we pay a good chunk for annually.

1,000+ attributes on every US consumer.

Um, you can buy this data and get access to the raw, individual records no problem.

Here's one example - http://www.dev.kbmg.com/services-solutions/data/data-solutio...

I've seen this, and many other similar data sets. You can easily look up yourself, your friends, etc.

Living all day every day in enterprise land, Databricks current growth has been set on fire by their integration into Azure. All the bigCo's moving their legacy infra to Azure and finding out Databricks is available OOTB is fueling huge growth.

I have multiple friends from Oracle, IBM, Salesforce, Adobe, etc that are now AEs at Databricks making 3 or 4x total comp they were making previously.

Fun times!

What are good models to search for? I think my rpi or SD card just bit the dust, so looking for a new mini home server.

Dang man, what?????? Tell us more of this tale!

There is a Facebook group with 100k+ members dedicated solely to the poor engineering, design, and fabrication of their refrigerators - [SAMSUNG REFRIGERATOR RECALL U.S.A. NOW] - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1520337151601316/

Check out the VC arms of all these insurers. Lot of capital they got! :)

It's not so much an actual regulation, as it is good practice that once you get large enough (ie attractive enough to sue), HR will implement actions to "affirmatively demonstrate" that they are fair in their hiring practices.

I'd second this.

Work in a large F50 and all the enterprise grade ones we've had are decent.

This is the current model they are giving folks:

https://us.targus.com/products/usb-c-universal-dv4k-docking-...

I've been running an Intel MacBook Pro (last intel version I think) on it the last few months with 2 external HP displays, keyboard, mouse, and it is a solid performer.

Where is the DNS test environment??????????

:)

It’s always DNS!

No new law needed!

All you need to do is serve Google in court and they'll respond, trust me :)

A lot of the stories you hear and see online of this flavor are planted by Google and others to dissuade you from filing simple legal actions!

This type of experience was exactly what I experienced my first few LSD trips. It's a type of disassociation or ego death, where you really feel deeply the experience of observing yourself, your thoughts, from a seemingly separate viewpoint.

It made me question reality in a way I hadn't before.

Is all of this pre-determined? Is it arbitrary? Is it random? Is there an underlying meaning here we should recognize?

I came to believe that love, connection, existing itself, were all somehow significant. Hard to say if this is real, or just part of the pattern :)

Shit-ton of .Net running in on-prem corporate environments still.

My guess is this is another carrot to get those workloads migrated kids!

The Russian market is going to zero Monday morning so get out while you still can!

Going to be an interesting week :)

There have been plenty of companies that have followed this pattern - GoodRx, SingleCare, ScriptRelief, etc.

As others have pointed out, Cuban is basically running a lead gen operation that then services customers drug needs via a white labeled site/fulfillment operation run by TruePill.

Any idea who is funding TruePill?

One of the largest PBMs in the industry - https://www.optumventures.com/portfolio/

Many ways to make money in pharma!

Money is a proxy for freedom. Doesn't mean that's the only way to be free, but it's certainly the most direct, universally understood route.