Merissa Molinar
@MerissaMolinar
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Product manager 💻 Stanford '12 🌲 Not sure what else to type here 🫶
San Francisco, CA
Joined September 2012
What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A đź§µ on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N
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NotebookLM is quite powerful and worth playing with https://t.co/wQc3HDvJFo It is a bit of a re-imagination of the UIUX of working with LLMs organized around a collection of sources you upload and then refer to with queries, seeing results alongside and with citations. But the
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New college students inability to read full books explained in one chart:
At elite colleges like Columbia, many students are showing up unprepared to read full books. It’s not that they don’t want to, @rosehorowitch writes. Middle and high schools have stopped teaching them how:
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Does the brain change during pregnancy? You bet it does. How about doing 26 MRI scans on a single person pre-conception to 2 years post-partum. WOW! Laura Pritschet and colleagues nailed it with their new paper in @NatureNeuro. Key Points: - The authors point out that pregnancy
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Old photos of Steve Jobs testing out Photo Booth filters in 2005
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In less than a week of living in San Francisco, I've: ❤️ Attended a conference of open-source builders, meeting people I've known for over a decade (!) for the first time in person (!!) 🤖 Hung out at an izakaya with a bunch of amazing founders, all of whom are building
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@GergelyOrosz @ebiatawodi “I don't know what I think until I write it down.” ― Joan Didion One of my all-time favorite quotes.
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Strava has officially launched its new dating feature!
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Early in building Loyal I made the decision to be a public facing CEO because 1- Loyal will ultimately be a consumer brand, & 2- it was one of the few “unfair advantages” we had available to us This was a hard decision b/c i knew it put a big fat red target on my back, because
I finally wrote down my thoughts about Glossy, the book about Glossier (where I used to run comms). I have some pretty strong feelings about how Emily Weiss is portrayed, and even stronger ones about what the lessons are (and aren’t) for women founders.
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Me, the Californian, on a thread with New Yorkers talking about scheduling dinner and someone says "8:30 is great!"
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Enterprise sales team trying to get a prospect’s feature request on the roadmap
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Who is SBF and how did he go from being crypto's savior to the man that brought a trillion dollar industry to its knees? I looked into it and here's the full story of his rise and fall:
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overheard: dating when you're younger is like start-ups, dating when you're older is like M & A
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"Imagine how effective you would be if you weren’t anxious all the time." @naval
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