The Ten Laws of Medical Power
Signals for the Future Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast 🖊️ Share this newsletter with others After a long inpatient week, vacation and two infections (thanks daycare) I’m back. Let’s get into it… TL;DR Physicians are losing power in a changing world—AI, declining pay, and corporate control threaten the profession. There are new rules to thrive: Act fast. Success favors speed, not perfection. Leverage beats effort. Scale through AI, media,…
Tools to Manage Dopamine and Improve Motivation & Drive
Thank you for joining the Huberman Lab Podcast Neural Network — a once-a-month newsletter with science and science-supported tools for everyday life. The purpose of this newsletter is to provide you with actionable information in condensed form. Dopamine is a molecule in the brain and body that is closely linked to our sense of motivation. It […]
Rupture and Repair: Risk, Chaos & Agony in a Time of Perma-Crisis
Hey Reader, After tragedy strikes, we are left with difficult and uncomfortable questions. Families standing in the rubble of their once loved homes wondering what is left for them. How do they rebuild? So many of us bewildered as how a mid-air collision with a military helicopter could occur over a major American city. Was there something we could have done differently? How much agency do we really have ? The recent LA Wildfires and the DC plane collision raise the failure of complex…
RFK Jr, MAHA, and the Viral Advantage of Contrarianism
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, 🙏🏼 More help is needed for victims of the LA Fires. Consider donating here 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast and 🚀 your Leadership Quotient (LQ) Much ink has been spilled both in favor and against RFK Jr nomination to head HHS- from the “sanewashing” of his more extreme views to the wellness mamas who feel he is going to fight big pharma and clean up our food system. If it wasn’t clear my stance: to quote…
Brr It’s Cold in Here: The New AI Cold War Shaping Tech and Geo Politics
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, 🙏🏼 More help is needed for victims of the LA Fires. Consider donating here 🎙 Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast and 🚀 your Leadership Quotient (LQ) 😮 $1.5 trillion was lost in 1 day as Deepseek, a Chinese upstart with a few months and a fraction of the money than their US counterparts, bested OpenAi and other US AI firms such as Anthropic. As Forbes pointed out, “Nvidia lost $589 billion in market…
The Four Corners of American Culture
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Health | Innovation | Society Hey Reader, Update: The city still burns and business, families, children, and animals are still displaced. Please consider donating to the LA Fire victims. Here is a list of worthy charities. Talent congregates in space and time. If you wanted to be an artist, few better places in the 14 century than Florence. If you wanted to be a philosopher, then Ancient Greece was the place to be. The same is true for us today. Today there…
Dispatch from LA: The Fight Against Easy Answers
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Health | Pivotal | Leadership Hey Reader, Please consider donating to the LA Fire victims. Here is a list of worthy charities. “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet to Horatio, Act 1 Scene 5 of Hamlet In times of crisis and confusion, people desperately seek certainty. The alternative is too scary: anxiety, panic and paralysis. We demand certainty of our leaders. It is the basis of active…
Leadership in the Ring of Fire
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Hey Reader, Right now, my city is burning. And I am grieving. While my family and I are safe, too many aren’t. The scale of suffering is almost unimaginable except it is equally tragic and equally real. First the important stuff. If you feel so called here are some credible organizations that do life saving work that are accepting donations: World Central Kitchen LAFD California Fire Foundation Best Friends LA Leadership is made or broken in tiny moments….
The Great Re-Humanization Project
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Hey Reader, Listen to the Alchemy of Politics Podcast Here ✑ It’s an odd thing I’ve noticed – people are everywhere but humanity’s no where to be found. We have a society where humans exist but people are not present. Just go to any airport as many of you did for the holidays. It’s night of the walking dead. Everyone slow walks while zombified on a dopamine loop from their phones. Meanwhile our social media era has more isolated from each other than ever….
Unrest in the Time of Doctoring
The Playbook for Tomorrow’s Leaders Hey Reader, No industry failing more than healthcare. No field is more urgent than medicine. The doctor is the most conflicted professional in modern life. We are committed to contradictory ideals. These two strands represent the pressing obstacles for today’s physicians. We are experts operating in dysfunctional systems. This leaves doctors riven by existential discord (who am I?), professional dubiety (what is my role?), and personal burnout (why am I not…
