A bunch of notable people that I met today and their thoughts either me, on my project, and my thoughts combined:
- Self-introspection is needed because mindset is everything. For example, if I believe people won't join me because they are very self-assured and they are very self-centered, what does that say about how not just how I perceive people, but how I view myself as?
- There's inherently heterogeneity even per disease. I believe that FDA and NIH contributed in that direction so that this raised question that stumped me could be partially answered by the government's effort and other companies'/uniersity labs' efforts at coming up with CRISPR protocols and specific cell line variations to deal with specific sub-disease phenotypes. That should be taken care of upstream of any reproducible biomanufacturing of brain organoids. For e.g. Parkinson's and other non-memory-related neurodegenerative diseases. Working with a design partner (that is, a potential long-term paying customer) would answer the other part of this problem.
- People are very much focused on agentic workflows/infra.
- On recruit: People in academia that are not in SF (even japan/asia as a whole) are statistically less progressive about transitioning into industry so the answer is either: look into industry (eg isomorphic) or look for people who desperately want to leave for industry.
also i just saw this: 