Building and investing in startups that make life better. Exploring ideas in AI and health. I love learning, programming, fitness, games, dogs, and kind people.
Mountain View, CA
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A heads-up that @prenuvo no longer sends superbills for insurance reimbursement. My insurance covered ~$600 of my 2023 scan.
Prenuvo's explanation that insurance codes change too often to send a superbill is hard to understand.
1. Prenuvo focuses on one type of service: MRI scans. They don't have to track hundreds of procedure codes.
2. Plenty of care providers who charge less than $2,000 offer superbills.
@prenuvo, this significantly reduces my interest in getting another scan. Please reconsider.
What integrity looks like.
npr.org/2025/01/23/g-s1-4445…
I was saying goodbye to my mother on a call this morning, hadn’t had my coffee yet, and my brain couldn’t decide on “see you shortly” and “see you in a bit”, split the difference and came out with “see you in a shit.” 🙃
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks wrote on how to create collective joy. A man sent a letter to his rabbi:
"'I am depressed. I am lonely. I feel that life is meaningless. I try to pray, but the words do not come. I keep mitzvot but find no peace of mind. I need the rabbi's help.'
The rabbi sent a brilliant reply without using a single word. He simply circled the first word of every sentence and sent the letter back. The word in each case was 'I.' "
Source: bit.ly/3RGETCD
Excited to see the Othership App make breathwork more available to everyone. Congrats, Robbie!
Announcing: Othership App
After two years of hard work, pivots, and shutdowns, we're excited to share Othership App with the world.
We've raised $2m from @beondeck, @vineventures, @samcorcos + 70 angels to scale Othership's app and physical spaces.
This is our story 👇
Me: *clicks one Google News story about Will Smith*
Google News: Here are stories about Will Smith's movies, wife, kids, houses, income, clothes, favorite foods, and colonoscopy (really).
Me:
Is there a term that means "the number of buyers on a marketplace who become sellers", or vice versa?
I don't think "virality" or "network effect" captures this specifically. Is there a term like "buyer-to-seller conversion"?
1/8 - Six months ago, I joined @GoogleAI as an entrepreneur in residence.
I can't yet say exactly what I'm building but I'm excited to apply ML to law. Here are examples of opportunities. If these interest you, DM me or email [my last name] @ google .com. We're hiring!
7/8 - NLP methods can now classify a contract's clauses, extract values, compare values to averages, and even find common errors and risks.
Contract AI isn't perfect, but it's a solid first pass to increase comprehension, fairness, and peace of mind.
hbr.org/2018/02/how-ai-is-ch…
Proud to be an advisor for Motivo (@wearemotivo), the first marketplace for telesupervision. It connects recent therapist graduates with a clinical supervisor via live video so they can earn their license and a living.
They just raised $2.2M:
hypepotamus.com/news/motivo-…
Motivo charges only $45-$65 / hour, saving graduates thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in travel. It lets them choose among a range of qualified supervisors with different specialties instead of the ones who happen to be close by.
Over a million Americans work in professions that require supervision to become or stay licensed. Motivo is the future of supervision.
Excited to work with Motivo's mission-driven CEO, @RachMcCrickard. Rachel, thank you for letting me be part of Motivo's journey.