1 January 2025

Happy New Year!
Yeah, we made it.

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Brave Care did not make it, however. It started in 2019, which in retrospect was the worst possible year to start something like that. It meant well, and was going to be a disruptor. But it's hard to start your own ecosystem and be the only member of that system. You have to have other partners, and that's where many efforts like this fail. You eventually have to interact with the outside world: with insurance plans, with hospitals, and pharmacies. And their inefficiencies will eventually bring you down, because to survive requires an extraordinary staff of doctors, of which few exist anymore. I could have told them that, but they wouldn't believe me.

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Telemedicine was always an expedient, not the direction which healthcare should go.  Amazon One is finding this out. You can't cheap out on doctors. Telehealth needs to be used sparingly, and only when there is no human physician available.

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Quixotic makes software that will deliberately send LLM scrapers a corrupted version of your website when they come by to scrape. This is one way to fight back and protect your content.

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What is the secret of happiness? Scientists are going to try to find out, but that's the wrong approach. I think that how we define happiness changes as we age. Slowly, what makes you happy is better appreciation for what's going well with your life.

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