Welcome to Z-Pack:.because your brain could use a good scrubbing.

If this is your first Z-pack, welcome - I'm Zach.

I’m chronically online, finding out how the world works.

⬇️ Let’s get it.

😷 What diseases do you have?

Ever wonder “am I going to get cancer or something one day?”

In 2004, you would’ve had to pay $20 MILLION dollars for all the tests to MAYBE answer that question for you.

Now, you can pay just $400 for one test to measure how all your genetic and non-genetic factors may influence your risk for diseases (shown below).

The testing platform is called Nucleus.

From the tweet’s thread:

Here’s just one example: Nearly 25,000 rare genetic variants significantly increase a woman’s risk for breast cancer.

Other tests look for about 40 of these variants. Nucleus looks for more than 20,000.

I love technology 🤓

📉 We’re working less hours than ever?

Disclaimer: these are average working hours (not median!).

So I’m not saying that YOU are working less than 40 hours, but it looks like the average American is, which isn’t bad!

Especially since we, as Americans, are getting more efficient at working (or in technical language, producing more goods and services with the same amount of labor & capital.

Hell yeah 😤 - this is also known in econ as labor productivity.

And turns out our productivity levels kick ass compared to the rest of the world (except when compared to Ireland, Norway, & Switzerland - damn you three).

Maybe that’s why it’s getting easier for companies in the S&P 500 to generate one million dollars with fewer employees 🤯

_{*labor productivity = how good we are at converting our labor+capital into goods and services (outputs)}

 🚗 Uber saves lives

There are ~ 40,000 fatal crashes a year in the U.S., so the more we can do to reduce this number, the better.

This leads me to the subject of self-driving cars, which may be ironic talking about this next to the topic of safety.

Even though all you’ve probably heard about self-driving cars are the scary headlines on their crazy accidents, from what we can see right now, it looks like self-driving cars are actually safer than human-driven cars.

Some 🔥 to get you to the weekend

When you hear about new tech that gives you that “wtf is this” feeling, like self-driving cars, try and think of this quote from author Douglas Adams:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

_{S/O to Steph Smith for sharing this nugget.}

Thanks for taking the Pack,

Zach

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