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THOUGHT BUBBLE 01 OF 03Biology10 bubbles · Read →THOUGHT BUBBLE 02 OF 03Evolution10 bubbles · Read →THOUGHT BUBBLE 03 OF 03Medicine10 bubbles · Read →
01Life is the only thing in nature that improves itself.
02Biology is as deep as physics, and less understood.
03Biology is the last field still made by hand.
04Ideas are cheap. Experiments are expensive.
05AI without a lab is a hypothesis generator.
06Evolution is the original compute.
07The best datasets in biology don’t exist yet.
08Grow it, don’t build it.
09The lab of the future fits on a bench and runs all night.
10Software ate the world. Biology will grow it.
01Evolution is the most powerful algorithm we didn’t write.
02Design is a guess. Selection is a fact.
03First we read DNA. Then we wrote it. Next, it writes itself.
04Variation is cheap. Selection is everything.
05You don’t need to understand a system to improve it.
06Evolution isn’t slow. We just watched the slow parts.
07Resistance is evolution doing its job.
08Directed evolution is a technology.
09The future isn’t engineered. It’s bred.
10Evolution never stops. Neither should the lab.
01Every treatment is an experiment. We just don’t record most of them.
02Evolution is the oldest drug discovery platform.
03The blockbuster is a 20th-century artifact.
04Rare diseases aren’t rare.
05n=1 is the future.
06Medicine should adapt as fast as disease does.
07Time is the side effect nobody lists.
08Scarce expertise is a design flaw.
09Medicine should compound.
10The best medicine will be alive.
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Three essays on where we are headed.
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