The 2nd part of the COVID FAQ premium article is out. 9 Q&A. Here's what we talk about: 10. What Are the Side Effects of the Vaccines? I talk about blood clots, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, myocarditis/pericarditis, and more unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/covid-faq-20…
11. Does It Make Sense for Some Groups to Not Get Vaccinated Then?
There's 2 groups that might want to pick the right vaccines for them
12. Should We Have Mandatory Vaccines?
There's a massive gap between mandating and not mandating. We can get freedom and good healthcare outcomes. The nuances here matter a lot.
13. How Should We Deal with Immunocompromised People?
We already have lots of experience on this
14. Does Ivermectin work?
Several papers claim it works. I looked at peer reviews. The conclusion is clear
15. It Looks Like Most of Us Will Catch COVID Anyways. Vaccines Reduce the Risk. Why Wear Masks?
Masks are not just about catching the virus or not
16. Why Did Cases Go Down in India? What Really Happened There?
Why there was a spike, why it went down, why it didn't go all the way down.
17. Should We Attempt the Complete Elimination of COVID? #ZeroCOVID is a sensible strategy, but there are other factors to consider before pushing a country to commit to it.
18. I Want to Travel to Europe/America. Will I get Locked Down?
I debate the likelihood that you'll be caught in a new lockdown if you go to Europe now.
If you catch COVID, the risk of developing COVID Chronic Fatigue Syndrome are 3,000x higher than those of suffering a bad vaccine side-effect. That illness can leave you out of work and energy for the rest of your life.
The most long-lasting part of Long COVID is likely Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, which so far has no cure and can last decades.
Your likelihood of catching it from COVID is ~2-3%, and it's worse for young ppl than old ppl
Long COVID is confusing until we realize its most alarming outcome is *Chronic Fatigue Syndrome* (CFS).
What does CFS look like?
Is it like Long COVID? 🧵
This is a person with CFS. At 24, she had spent nearly a decade without putting her feet on the ground.
This is @jenbrea suffering from post-exertional malaise, from her documentary Unrest, which you can watch on Netflix (the 3 clips come from the documentary)
This is Whitney, who hasn't talked for years. His father:
“Whitney’s state is comparable to an AIDS patient about a week before his death. And that has been the case for the last six years.”
The idea is to create a cohort-based course with live lectures. I am still debating whether it should be about 1. How to solve any problem 2. Advanced product and growth mgmt
Over my career managing billion-dollar tech products with hundreds of millions of users, studying storytelling, and writing COVID and Uncharted Territories articles, I've come to think the biggest pbm of mankind is that we don't know how to make decisions.
I want to solve that.
The 3-week course would include frameworks, lectures, and more importantly, workshops so you can bring pbms to the table and we can work to solve them together, learning decision-making along the way.
A majority of the world will speak English by the end of the century. This will create a new global identity. It will be the triumph of the Anywheres.
Why? Because the same mechanic happened in the past.
Here's what happened and what will happen next 🧵
Up to the 1500s, languages were not differentiated like today. In places like Europe, there were vernacular gradients, from Wallonia to Lisbon, from London to Vienna.
That's because most ppl didn't communicate with those far away from their village.
According to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, write-ups. But I never understood it until very recently.
Bezos defends why writing is better. Ironically, his write-up has all the flaws that he complains about in powerpoints:
“The narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what's more important than what, and how things are related”
Ok so his hypothesis: idea importance and interconnectedness are crucial, but write-ups achieve them better.
Why?
“Ppt-style presentations somehow give permission to gloss over ideas, flatten out any sense of relative importance, and ignore the interconnectedness of ideas.”
Ok 3 causes. W/ ppt, ppl:
-gloss over ideas
-don’t make idea importance obvious
-ignore their connection
Becoming the best in the world at some skill is nearly impossible. There's always somebody stronger than you, cleverer than you, with better genetics, who worked harder...
The more you work on standing out in a domain, the more you face these phenomenal competitors.
That's why becoming the best in the world at something takes too much work.
It's nearly impossible to be the best, but it's quite easy to be in the top 10% or so.