Best of Twitter - Week of January 17, 2022

Peter Reinhardt @reinpk

In the early days of Segment, right after we crossed $10m ARR our growth decelerated 8x from 300% yoy to 40% yoy in 6 months. What the hell happened? How did we reaccelerate back to 100% yoy? A thread 1/18

January 24th 2022

415 Retweets3,083 Likes

^ startups are hard

Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963

Really enjoying Razib Khan's latest post ($) on population turnover in Britain. Esp the bit below captures the gist. Recommended.👍 razib.substack.com/p/the-sun-neve…

January 16th 2022

2 Likes

^ wow

Calvin French-Owen @calvinfo

Lessons for early stage founders: calv.info/early-stage-le…

December 1st 2020

60 Retweets444 Likes

Michael Baym @baym

Switching from a 10- to a 5- day course means not giving patients five days of unnecessary antibiotics, and drops total use by half. Studies like this should be a priority for antibiotic stewardship. In how many other cases are we giving too many abx to already-recovered pts?

NIAID News @NIAIDNews

A 5-day antibiotic regime is superior to a 10-day for the outpatient treatment of children with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), according to a paper in #JAMA Pediatrics. Study lead by @VUMCHealth and @vumc_insights with support from #NIAID https://t.co/kCzmNnjb08

January 19th 2022

13 Retweets62 Likes

^ also: https://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j3418.full

Derek Lowe @Dereklowe

Blogged today about AlphaFold excitement, based on this thread from the other day: science.org/content/blog-p…

Russell Kaplan @russelljkaplan

Today I saw the impact that AlphaFold is having on speeding up drug discovery firsthand:

January 25th 2022

23 Retweets108 Likes

Derek Thompson @DKThomp

Abundance requires innovation. Innovation begins with science. But scientific funding in the U.S. is broken—it's too slow, risk-averse, and old. I wrote about a surprising coalition of tech founders and star scientists who are trying to fix it. Silicon Valley’s New ObsessionA group of tech founders, crypto billionaires, and star scientists is launching a fleet of science labs.theatlantic.com

January 20th 2022

123 Retweets512 Likes

^ New Science profiled! (along with Arcadia and Arc)

Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963

Outstanding history and business strategy write up about Intel and TSMC from Ben Thompson today 👍 Below is one of the key bits. stratechery.com/2022/the-intel…

January 18th 2022

2 Retweets1 Like

Trenton Bricken @TrentonBricken

A 2021 study of 265,172 subjects in Sweden over a 12-year period found that patients with herpes diagnoses not treated with antiviral drugs had a 50% increased risk of dementia over controls, but treatment with antiviral drugs reduced the incidence by 25%. Alzheimer’s disease - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

January 18th 2022

Elon Musk @elonmusk

Good thing I never tweet anything controversial

January 16th 2022

23,760 Retweets253,961 Likes

Quarantined section

Rodrigo Campero V. @rcv97

@YourNeighbor57 @Craig_A_Spencer Switzerland can be taken as an example.

January 21st 2022

124 Retweets845 Likes