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Cake day: January 10th, 2024

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  • I got my primary care doctor from a family member recommendation. Most specialists I see are based on her recommendation (even if there’s not a formal referral). My wife has a less-common medical condition and found her primary care doctor from a local Facebook group for people with the condition where people were sharing doctors they’d had good experiences with.

    I think that insurance I had in the past or currently has some sort of lookup for doctors in-network and people were able to leave reviews. I’ve actually had some success with that, trying to see from the reviews who I might jive with. I feel like I’ve had more success from talking with people and seeing if they like their doctor, though.






  • I’m sure there are many jobs AI is not capable of doing but some CEOs probably do a bad enough job that an AI chat bot could probably do better.

    I know we like to dump on CEOs all the time but a good CEO does not seem like one that could be replaced by AI, certainly not by what is currently being hyped. There are just a lot of highly visible companies with CEOs who aren’t actually very good. I suspect the dysfunction of publicly traded companies and the goals of Wall Street investors (or other nations’ equivalents) frequently not aligning with a good long-term health of a company has a strong influence on this.

    And of course these guys will be happy to have AI replace them; they’ve already made boatloads of money and think they’ll be able to keep that going even if they lose their job.







  • I saw a show on Food Network or the History Channel about the history of soda in the US and they said Pepsi rose to number 3 in the US during the depression era from people doing that. A bottle of Coca-Cola was something like 5¢ for an 8oz bottle and Pepsi was also 5¢ but for a 16oz bottle. If you had guests over people would offer them a Coke but pour the glass in the kitchen from a Pepsi bottle then bring the glass out to wherever the guest was sitting.

    The number 2 cola in the era was Moxie, but it declined in the soda fountain era. Originally it was only sold in bottles. If the soda jerk gave an extra pump of syrup with Coke or Pepsi it wasn’t a big deal, maybe even better. Get the ratio wrong on Moxie, though, and it was apparently bad.