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I got an Oura ring a couple of years ago and have been working on improving my sleep and sleep habits ever since. For much of my adult life, I have been a poor sleeper. I have always been able to fall asleep quickly, but I have been plagued by two sleep issues. The first is waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep. The second is waking up early, like 4:30/5am, and being wide awake. So I’ve been working on those two things. I still wake up in the middle of t...
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I have written many times here that it is important to me that I control the platform that I publish on. I use the open-source WordPress software for my content management system and run that on a hosted server. I use my own domain, AVC.com, to locate my writings on the Internet. That has served me well. No matter how horrible I become, nobody is going to take me down. But we can go even further down this path of controlling our destiny. We can decentralize the entire thing; the content manag...
AVCOpen Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/ you select four investors (out of more than 100) that you want to meet 2/ you get up to four twenty minute meetings 3/ you discuss your idea with the investor in hopes of getting them interested enough to take anothe...
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I’ve always been a fan of preventive medicine. I like the idea of medicine that stops us from getting sick.
As a child, I was vaccinated for all of the normal things, polio, whooping cough, etc in order to be able to go to school.
Growing up I was vaccinated for tetanus and a few other things.
As an adult, I have gotten a flu vaccine every year for almost forty years. And as a result, I have avoided the flu almost every season.
Last Friday, I biked over to CVS and got my annual flu shot and the new bivalent Covid vaccine.
That Covid shot is my sixth. I started with a J&J in March 2021 when I was skiing in Utah. I got the Pfizer double shot in the summer of 2021, I got a Moderna booster in Jan 2022 a few weeks after I got a mild case of Covid. I got another Moderna booster this past summer, and on Friday I got the new bivalent Moderna vaccine.
I think it is safe to say that I am a believer in vaccine technology and I avail myself of it when it is recommended. I got the double shingles shot a few years ago on my doctor’s recommendation. I had shingles once, in my early 30s, and hope I never get it again. It is painful.
I know that many people don’t trust vaccines. They believe they cause bad side effects. Or they believe they don’t work. Or both.
But I am in the other camp. I am a vaccine enthusiast. I like the idea that we have a technology for instructing our immune systems on how to react to a pathogen. I would like to instruct my immune system as much as possible.
I’ve always been a fan of preventive medicine. I like the idea of medicine that stops us from getting sick.
As a child, I was vaccinated for all of the normal things, polio, whooping cough, etc in order to be able to go to school.
Growing up I was vaccinated for tetanus and a few other things.
As an adult, I have gotten a flu vaccine every year for almost forty years. And as a result, I have avoided the flu almost every season.
Last Friday, I biked over to CVS and got my annual flu shot and the new bivalent Covid vaccine.
That Covid shot is my sixth. I started with a J&J in March 2021 when I was skiing in Utah. I got the Pfizer double shot in the summer of 2021, I got a Moderna booster in Jan 2022 a few weeks after I got a mild case of Covid. I got another Moderna booster this past summer, and on Friday I got the new bivalent Moderna vaccine.
I think it is safe to say that I am a believer in vaccine technology and I avail myself of it when it is recommended. I got the double shingles shot a few years ago on my doctor’s recommendation. I had shingles once, in my early 30s, and hope I never get it again. It is painful.
I know that many people don’t trust vaccines. They believe they cause bad side effects. Or they believe they don’t work. Or both.
But I am in the other camp. I am a vaccine enthusiast. I like the idea that we have a technology for instructing our immune systems on how to react to a pathogen. I would like to instruct my immune system as much as possible.
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