What Machines Need
Machines are stupid. (Hope this doesn’t get me in trouble when they rule the world). They compensate for what they can’t, with their...
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The Daily Leaflets
- 4 days ago
- 1 min
Early Intervention
I love the atmosphere in very early startups. The focus is still mainly on the Science and Proof-of-concept. The possibilities are...
- May 21
- 2 min
Demons in the Data Smoke
When the horror pictures from the Twin Towers started flocking in, I was astonished by the magnitude of nonsense that came along with it....
- May 15
- 1 min
Blue pens and Papers
We LOVE papers in the Pharma industry. They are crunchy and durable and you can actually hold them. They can be stored in an archive, and...
- May 8
- 2 min
The million faces of Data
Will it blend? That is the question. For those of you who don’t know the reference, Google it for your daily entertainment. The research...
- May 7
- 2 min
The process is the product
When ChatGPT was announced last year, I was knees deep with the team, inside the arduous final touches of writing an NDA. To be specific-...
- May 7
- 1 min
Viruses, the tough guys of Biology
Viruses are the real tough guys of biology. We all saw how difficult it was to run a fight with a contagious virus on the loose. In the...
- May 4
- 1 min
Another step towards a digital future...
Another step towards a fully digital future, straight from the FDA’s oven. FDA has published for comments another breakdown of the CTD...
- May 1
- 1 min
Small molecules and Cell therapies...
I love small molecules. They are well-defined, they are stable, they are easy to deliver to patients, and are reliable all around. The...
- Apr 27
- 1 min
Knowledge to the rescue!
The entire endeavor of drug development is in essence, a quest for knowledge. We start with zero knowledge about the new molecule- it...
- Apr 26
- 2 min
Onboarding woes...
When people think of onboarding it is usually for hiring a new team member. In reality we “onboard” all the time- when we hire...
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Backup your knowledge...
With the incredible amounts of data at our disposal, it is almost negligence to let some of it collect dust in some folder without use....
- Mar 26
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 21
- 2 min
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...
- Mar 19
- 2 min
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
- 2 min
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
- 2 min