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Jan 12, 2025 | 
nabeelqu.substack.com | Nabeel Qureshi
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack. A cursed fact of the world is that the most important life lessons you learn are the hardest to communicate to others. They always sound like clichés. In any case, these are a few things I’ve learned from experience and that I try and keep in mind.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
rand.org | Mary Ellen |Denise D. Quigley |Mary Slaughter |Nabeel Qureshi
BackgroundBurnout among providers negatively impacts patient care experiences and safety. Providers at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) are at high risk for burnout due to high patient volumes; inadequate staffing; and balancing the demands of patients, families, and team members. ObjectiveExamine associations of provider burnout with their perspectives on quality improvement (QI), patient experience measurement, clinic culture, and job satisfaction.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nabeel Qureshi
A retrospective of an eight-year stint. Nabeel Qureshi·Follow24 min read·--Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest. For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016–2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
rand.org | Joshua Breslau |Samantha Matthews |Nabeel Qureshi |Jonathan Levin
Topics Publisher: American Journal of Preventive MedicineAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 13 Document Number: EP-70678 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nabeelqu.substack.com | Nabeel Qureshi
Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest. For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse. There were regular protests outside the office.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nabeelqu.substack.com | Nabeel Qureshi
Palantir is hot now. The company recently joined the S&P 500. The stock is on a tear, and the company is nearing a $100bn market cap. VCs chase ex-Palantir founders asking to invest. For long-time employees and alumni of the company, this feels deeply weird. During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular. The company was seen as spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse. There were regular protests outside the office.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
mercatus.org | Nabeel Qureshi
In recent years and months, artificial intelligence (AI) has been catching up to human performance at complex cognitive tasks. This paper examines the drivers of this trend—increasing computational power, expanding data availability, and improving algorithmic efficiency—and argues that the trend is likely to continue. The paper then reviews the implications of this trend for national security, policy, and the economy.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
rand.org | Nabeel Qureshi |Denise D. Quigley
Topics Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health, IncAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 16 Document Number: EP-70565 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
lesswrong.com | Itay Dreyfus |Nabeel Qureshi |Venkatesh Rao |David Cole
What’s Twitter for you? That's a long-lasting trend I often see on my feed when people praise the blue bird for getting them a job, introducing them to new people, investors, and all this and that. What about me? I just wanted to get into dribbble — the then invite-only designer's social network which was at its peak at the time. When I realized invites were given away on Twitter, I set up an account and went on a hunt. Soon, the mission was accomplished.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
digitalspirits.substack.com | Nabeel Qureshi
Are LLMs (Large Language Models) smarter than house cats? Turing Award winner Yann LeCun recently answered this question with a resounding “no” in his testimony to Congress:“A cat can remember, can understand the physical world, can plan complex actions, can do some level of reasoning—actually much better than the biggest LLMs.”Like LeCun, many AI experts believe eventual AGI will not be achieved by pure scaling up of LLMs. Other researchers disagree.
