I have to say, doing multiple things can be very productive. Sometimes I get stuck on one thing and procrastinate by doing another piece of work instead

It's unclear to me at the moment whether the view counter on my TED talk is broken or if my aunts and uncles have been frantically refreshing the page thousands of times each

The tools to develop new drugs and vaccines have improved enormously, so why haven't we cured all diseases yet? Listen to my TED talk to find out!

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it. worksinprogress.co/issue/fut… The central drama of the modern world is innovation against suffering, and we have made incredible progress so far. But we are doing far worse than we could. Millions still suffer from untreatable diseases, because of bottlenecks that we could fix. You can help fix them.

Enjoyed this post by @vientsek! As AI speeds up drug discovery, clinical trials are going to become even more of a bottleneck. Innovative trial design, like platform trials, can make it faster and cheaper to test drug candidates, but they haven't been adopted widely. Funders can change that by designing the trial as well. It would also help make head-to-head comparisons between candidates. clinicaltrialsabundance.blog…