This is the old Socratic bugbear, right? It's not that people might read, it's that they might read *wrong*—and, I mean, Khan and Thiel are as incorrect as they come (but there's a whole elitist strain here that I acknowledge but don't know how to deal with other than saying, "LET THEM HAVE BOOKS")

Thanks! This is actually for revisions from a talk I gave in September (that honestly was quite rough): github.com/pletcher/dra... — criticism is most welcome!

Shout out to bowphs/GreBerta for the model huggingface.co/bowphs/GreBe...

As nightly prayers go, this is up there with “Now I lay me down to sleep”

This might have changed — I only taught the first-year sequence as a grad student from 2021-2023 — but these were/are required readings in Columbia’s undergrad gen. ed.

Weiss & co.’s reporting does a major disservice to the work students do to grapple with these difficult & culturally loaded texts

("These" meaning Weiss and co.)

The Quran is required reading for second-years; first-years read Genesis, Job, Song of Songs, and the Gospels of Luke and John. As Logan Roy would say, "[These] are not serious people"

It’s difficult to overstate just how *not smart* SV/VC types are. In my (admittedly limited, low-level startup experience) many VCs don’t want to put in the effort to understand biotech, so they invest in “Uber for Parrots” instead (no offense to parrots, who are good birds 🦜)