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Who Is Matt Walker?

Matt Walker is a Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, trying to understand why we sleep.


What Are The Side Effects Of Broad Spectrum Antibiotics?

Broad spectrum antibiotics are designed to wipe out a wide spectrum of bacteria, so even if we don't know what exactly is causing an illness, these antibiotics are supposed to take care of it, and they do. However, by design, they also decimate your microbial flora. Your microbiome is like your inner ecosystem, which is all the bacteria and microbes that live in and all around the body.


How Has The Consumer Behavior Change With An Abundance Of Code Schools?

In a now competitive field like code schools and lessons, people shop around and have more preconceived expectations, especially around pricing. One Month is often asked how they are different from Udemy, and why One Month courses cost more. Chris and Mattan have to constantly defend their value proposition. Meanwhile, in a more niche field, where there's no competition, schools can offer anything and sell it with ease.


Is It True That Gatorade Is The Best Drink To Rehydrate You?

It’s not the best fluid solution because it has too much salt and sugar in it. People say to dilute half of it with water to rehydrate yourself. By taking tiny sips, you’ll get enough fluids to prevent a trip to the ER.


How Are Nature And Nurture Connected?

Overall, no one knows what these genes do or how they connect, but the heredity connection is evident. They all weave together and influence each other.


How Can We Enable Ground Breaking Innovation?

According to Eric Weinstein, our survival depends on the theoretical physicists. As their occupation continues to be underpaid, now is a great time to enable them to dream of the future, and invent it while at it.


How Can I Learn To Design And Get A Job Without Any Experience?

Dan Mall runs a SuperFriendly Academy, a 9-months apprenticeship program, designed to be a deep immersion into design, for people who would like to get into design as their new career, from scratch.


What Is The Right Way To Run An Apprenticeship Program For Designers?

Take somebody who wants to learn design and show them the ropes, but don't just teach them design, teach them how to be a professional. Show them how to do customers service, how to do the invoicing, their taxes, how to scope a project and meet deadlines, how to make a client happy without compromising your beliefs. Teach your apprentices everything they would need to strike out on their own.


What Are Products Or Apps That People Should Know About?

One product that Joel mentions is Superhuman, a new email product with problems that are continuously being solved. Threads is a product that is between email and Slack. Joel also describes it as a super charged forum or discussion board for a company, and it has replaced email within his company for internal communication.


How Do You Spot A Failing Relationship?

Ask yourself - How do you feel? Do you feel relaxed around this person? Do you feel like you can be yourself? Do you feel like you can say whatever you want to say? Then you are in a good place.

On the other hand, if you feel yourself editing yourself or reserving your opinion or tiptoeing around to please that person, those are indications that you're not in the right relationship.


How Big Can Smash Notes Get?

A big as YouTube. In 10 years, every day you'll open Smash Notes and you'll check what is new from your favorite podcasters, and your followers. Then, instead of listening to 20 hours of podcasts, you will get the gist in just a few minutes.


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