David Pierce
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I think a lot of health care providers don't have experience with these devices.
And, you know, I can tell you, we just published a study recently.
surveying endocrinologists who have a ton of experience using this technology in people with diabetes.
And we gave them 20 different glucose monitor reports.
Sort of the visual is very similar to what you see on the app.
and asked them, okay, if someone came in with this report, would you suggest they have follow-up screening for this?
And I think we had 18 different experts that we surveyed, and essentially there was no consensus.
If I was trying to get rid of big tech apps in my life, my top three or four recommendations would definitely start with Proton.
Proton is this company started by a bunch of CERN scientists in Switzerland that is very privacy focused.
And over the years, they've actually built
a series of apps that are basically as good as everything you get from Google.
They have a drive, they have an email, they have calendar, they have all this stuff.
The next one is probably Signal, which is the messaging app I think everyone should switch to.
There are things that are good about WhatsApp, even though it's owned by Meta, but Signal is a organization run by the right kind of people who believe in the right kind of things.
And then the third one is slightly more a field, but I would say anyone who wants to do smart home stuff in their life right now should use Home Assistant.
You can use Alexa, you can use HomeKit, you can use Google.
But Home Assistant is this very specific, hackable, open system that you control much more completely than you control any of those other systems.
Everything from the stuff on your doorbell that's looking out at the world and seeing people come up to your door to like the baby monitors inside of your house.
Who runs that stuff matters.
Netflix, absolutely.