To build or not to build
There is a hidden cost to outsourcing. Its hard to measure in the Excel sheets, its inevitable, and we all do it whenever we pay for a...
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- 5 days ago
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The Pros and Cons of being alive
Buddha taught us not to get overly distracted by the illusions we invent. These illusions are a feature- not a bug. We evolved to imagine...
- 7 days ago
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Explain it to me as if I were Human
My car has an alert system that warns me of collisions. There is this one spot where the alarm goes crazy- beeping faster and louder...
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Don’t be afraid of the Dragon
Would you flip a coin each time you take a medicine, Heads - safe, Tails - unsafe? I guess you wouldn't. But ask the terminally ill...
- Mar 12
- 2 min
Money, Energy and Patience
We influence the world by putting energy into the things we care about. It could be the daily pruning of a garden, the back and forth...
- Mar 10
- 1 min
The Wisdom Ladder
We generate data in many shapes and colors. Letters, numbers, pictures, spectra, chromatograms, and whatnot… When combined into a...
- Mar 8
- 2 min
Let's be FAIR
Look at your desktop Now back to me. Now back at your desktop. Now back to ME. Sadly, your desktop isn't me. But if you stop saving all...
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Machine Intuition and Gut Feelings
A few years back, I was a PIP in a manufacturing facility in Vienna. PIP means Person-in-plant, and I was representing a client, who had...
- Mar 6
- 2 min
Drivers, Pedestrians, and ICH Q9
The world is a dangerous place. Risks are looming all around us. You Dodge one ball just to find yourself worrying about another one. But...
- Mar 2
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Clean Rooms and Dirty Hands…
We are not very clean. We surely FEEL clean when we wash our hands, but if you look through a microscope, our skin is a rich ecosystem of...
- Mar 1
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Speech to Text to Knowledge
I am an avid listener. Not enough, according to my daughters, but Audio has always been my go-to for learning. I would record the...
- Feb 27
- 2 min
Assumptions to the daylight!
No way around peeking into this Pandora box called “what we don’t know we don’t know”, and the trickier cousin: “what we THINK we know...
- Feb 26
- 1 min
What you don't know you know
You know what you know. Simple enough. What you don't know you don't know is always a challenge. In between- what you Know you don't know...
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Sine, Cosine, and DNA
Back in high school I had a graphing calculator (long before the age of smartphones… or even cell phones- OMG). It was a Texas...
- Feb 24
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Surfing on the AI Hype cycle
I occasionally contemplate where we are on the hype cycle with regards to AI and Pharma. On one hand- the companies developing the tech...
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Insource your knowledge
The further along we go down the development line, the deeper the knowledge we accumulate on the product. This translates to lower risk...
- Feb 22
- 1 min
Time to clean up the Knowledge garage!
Start-ups in pharma are notoriously risky- risks are everywhere, literally. They start with a drug candidate which is 100% uncertain: It...
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Trees, Leaves, and Knowledge
When you map your knowledge, it quickly assumes the shape of a tree.
- Oct 3, 2022
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We are time
We don't have time. We don't use time. We are time. As we walk through the arrow of time, we accumulate experience, knowledge,...
- Sep 1, 2022
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Knowledge and Risk
Buddha said: "it is difficult to be thorough in learning and exhaustive in investigation". He was referring, of course, to the arduous...
- Jul 7, 2022
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The top of the mountain...
We've been climbing the CMC Development mountain in the past few weeks, each session we picked a different track... We spent a great deal...
- Jun 15, 2022
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The CMC Superhero
The CMC Team: ● Makes sure manufacturing operations are synchronized with clinical needs (be it for clinical trials or market) ● Manages...
- May 31, 2022
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The CMC Train is full steam ahead!
The CMC Essentials Training course is running full steam ahead! Some key take-aways from the first 3 sessions: We discussed how the...
- May 1, 2022
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To Ph.D or not to Ph.D
When I told my professor in Weizmann I decided not to pursue a Phd, he thought I lost my mind. “Why would you not want to be a...
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