Author: tremendousblog
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Find this and eat it! I celebrated my 35th birthday this weekend! My wife very kindly arranged for a hotel staycation in New York City, along with an outstanding meal. But there was one little problem. All indoor dining is closed in NYC. And it’s January. I used my winter…
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+ Birthdays, Burgers, Cheeseburgers, Eating out, Hamburgers, Memories, New York City, NYC, Outdoors, Restaurants, Special occasions+
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Yesterday, my wife gave me a gift that will keep on giving: a sleep mask. She recently started using one and noticed the quality of her sleep improved enormously. I observed her, intrigued. Just before dinner, she presented me with a sleep mask of my very own! I took it…
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+ Health+ Books, E-commerce, Healthy lifestyle, Lifehack, Online shopping, relaxation, Self-care, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Above: Angel investor Jason Calacanis The angel investor Jason Calacanis got in on the ground floor of Uber, Thumbtack, and other highly successful software companies, multiplying his $100,000 investment into $100,000,000 in just 6 years. With results like that, you know I had to read his book! The idea of…
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+ Angel Investing, Future, Futurism, Investing, Non-fiction, Reading, Software, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Tell me why can’t this be love? This fall, I bought what might be the strangest anti-COVID device yet…a humidifier. Two, actually. I set them up in the living room and bed room and then went to work turning my dry apartment in the chilly New York area into a…
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+ Coronavirus, COVID-19, E-commerce, Essential oils, Home, Home goods, House, Humidity, Medicine, Online shopping, Research, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Above: Me, an FDA Approved KN95, and a snowman. I am starting to see more and more people on the street wearing N95, KN95 and surgical masks, rather than cloth ones. That makes me really happy, because I know they’re a lot more effective. With a more contagious COVID variant…
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My main business is investment, and some recent developments have gotten me thinking about where markets are headed this year. An end to the pandemic by Q2 2021 is predicted by multiple models (here and here). We’ve seen a substantial increase in personal income in 2020, largely due to the…
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Photo: Dr. Maciej Boni, Associate Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, study co-author Assuming high vaccination coverage (> 28%) and no major relaxations in distancing, masking, gathering size, or hygiene guidelines between now and spring 2021, our model predicts that a combination of vaccination and population immunity will lead to…
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Photo: Shengfang Jin, PhD, Vice President and Head of Discovery Biology, Editas Medicine This morning, I attended an online presentation by two experts on gene editing and CRISPR. Shengfang Jin, VP of Editas Medicine, and Andrew Lin, who heads the Rare Disease Center at WuXi AppTec, presented a lot of…
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This weekend, my wife introduced me to an adorable little video series ]that’s become all the rage lately in her home country of Japan. The stop-motion animations feature little guinea pig cars that have adventures, and the sounds are recorded from actual guinea pigs! We’ve enjoyed relaxing in the evenings…
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Tremendous 