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There need to be more companies solving this from first principles like Yuzu Health. They have a cool blog at https://yuzu.health/blog that gets into the dynamics of this stuff. Le…

We love hiring junior engineers at https://yuzu.health/careers . Please apply or reach out to me over email: russell@yuzu.health.

Insurance is truly the place to find information challenges. It’s abstract but hypothetically structured well. Seems like there are a lot of use cases for this.

I had no idea the concept of product market fit was so new

This happens with healthcare data too. Every prescription you fill is tracked and used as input data for many insurance models that make health insurance pricing decisions.

Yuzu Health. NYC. We are: Health insurance plan manager growing 10%+ m/o/m with a founding team of just 5 people. We are using technology to link together new incentive structures …

I’ll admit that my company posts jobs to show strength to customers, partners, and competitors despite not actively hiring. My rationale is that if people actually cared enough to …

I thought this was about Yuzu Health

You should owe the money to the school. Will align incentives. If graduates don’t make enough to pay back the debt then the school could become insolvent. As it should.

Have foods gotten more processed in the last two decades? My understanding is that there has been a movement away from hyper processed food, but still a huge uptick in allergies. T…

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People want to be affirmed and loved. The medical system cannot do this. The healthcare industry will always try to sell a product, celebrate a cure. If not for profit, individual …

Matplotlib is great

Dark matter almost certainly doesn’t exist. This hunt for it is very parallel to the hunt for the “ether” that Einstein showed didn’t exist. Curiously, the big insight of relativit…

I don’t brush my teeth because I don’t want the residual fluoride there. It’s healthier to just slosh some vodka around to kill the germs (this wouldn’t work with kids, but hey the…

If you read the financial plans of these direct primary care clinics you’ll see that they intentionally lose money on primary care with the strategy of making up for it in increase…

This is my favorite complexity paper. It reminds us of how much we don’t know.

This is why climate accounting startups are dumb. Soon, very soon, clean energy and electric cars will literally be cheaper. Why track carbon credits anymore?

Yuzu Health (yuzu.health/careers) is hiring full stack developers to work with us in NYC to help refactor healthcare from our position of being the payer (health plan administrator…

Wow I am exactly the opposite. I do not like hacking. I like designing and optimizing and experimenting with new languages and strategies. I have mad respect for people like you, a…

The best theory I have heard for why crypto is so popular besides gambling is that it is fun to think about. True engineers love working in crypto since it feels cutting edge and i…

All this and AirBnB pays its engineers so well. Crazy to me. Feels like they should hire better engineers for the $ and build solutions that are more transparent and consistently a…

Would brainstorm with pen and paper only. Publishing thoughts and brainstorms to friends is the only thing I would use a tool online for