Key Insights on Science

Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication

• Free Will research by Sam Harris and Behave by Robert Sapolsky suggest humans may lack true Free Will due to subconscious brain processes
• Personalized medicine will enable disease prediction and treatment before symptoms appear, addressing individual brain chemistry differences
• Your nervous system chooses your partners before your mind does - chaos can feel like chemistry
• The Citrini article caused market panic that reminded Haydek of 1984 - 'just science fiction' creating Orwellian-style fear
• The Hot Hand was released March 10, 2020 — the book party was Tuesday, and 'the world shut down on Wednesday,' making for a uniquely strange launch experience.
• The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
• Tracy Letts lived through 1976 at age 11, getting a Honda 50 dirt bike for his bicentennial birthday while his parents ran a disastrous grocery store experiment

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