Derek Thompson

I appreciate that.

And I also like, this is an area where we've tried really hard.

We have spent billions of dollars trying to find something, anything that can slow dementia and Alzheimer's.

And we have struck out again and again and again.

There's a theory of the plaque hypothesis that might have been like a total dead end on this sort of dosing side and the pharmacological side that may have just caused the waste of billions of dollars of medical research, tens of billions of dollars maybe.

It might have really hurt some people in clinical trials as well.

And so just how wonderful would it be if it turned out that this worked?

I don't know if it'll work, right?

You don't know until the phase three clinical trial is over.

But, you know, we've talked about some depressing things.

I think there's some optimism.

This really does seem like a drug that for a variety of complicated reasons is pressing a lot of buttons at once.

And it'd be great to isolate some of those effects and make specific drugs for things like addiction and dementia.

I'd like a little addition to it, but why don't you... So I just think being a parent is really interesting.

It's also an incredible cliche.

And I try to go directly at that, that there's nothing about parenting that isn't a cliche, which makes it hard to write about in an interesting way.

But one thing that I feel that I don't think is articulated enough by parents is the degree to which you have a baby or...

one's wife has a baby or someone else has a baby that you adopt and the baby comes home and that baby is not the same baby week three and it's not the same baby month six and you know my kids are two years and two months old but it's not the same baby i imagine at five years old at 10 years old at 20 years old and so in a way i think what i said is like in a phenomenological sense it's

you don't raise a singular baby.

You raise a series of babies that keep changing, yet retain the basic facial structure of the baby that the woman gave birth to.