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Part I: Working at the Request of the Project
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Part I: Working at the Request of the Project

About a year ago, I discovered something that would eventually be investigated as fraud. I can’t provide any more details, except that nothing I found implicated anyone named in this post, that my suspicions were confirmed, and that it should have qualified for whistleblower protection.

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How I Made a Hard Pivot [Substack / Career Pivot]
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How I Made a Hard Pivot [Substack / Career Pivot]

I’ve worked in global health and in domestic health sectors. Unfortunately, I believe Wayan is right when he says: We must accept that we all need to find new jobs, new careers, new pathways in this life that give us joy and accomplishment.

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The Simple Reason Why ChatGPT Sparked the AI Boom
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The Simple Reason Why ChatGPT Sparked the AI Boom

“This is definitely surprising.”

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s chief technology officer, wasn’t the only one caught off guard by the rapid success of ChatGPT when it was released in November 2022. Her colleague, OpenAI’s co-founder and president Greg Brockman, expressed similar sentiments, saying, “I’ll admit that I was on the side of, like, I don’t know if this is going to work.”

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Remembering Paul Farmer
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Remembering Paul Farmer

The news of Paul Farmer’s passing hit me hard yesterday. His work was the singular reason I became interested in public and global health.

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