LMGTFY: A primer on therapeutics R&D

Let me GPT that for you...

Biotech is the WORST industry for jargon - it reinforces siloes and makes outsiders feel unwelcome...

Remember the old "Let me Google that for you" meme? ChatGPT (and other tools) makes that so much more relevant today and it's still kind of amazing to me how little the average professional adult uses tools like ChatGPT or Notebook LM to get smart about a new area (granted: my network might not be representative... I'm sure you're all MUCH better) 😉

Honestly, all the DeepSeek vs. OpenAI debate the last few days feels like it kind of misses the point... To me, the bigger issue is that the vast majority of people (myself included!) are not making the most out of the tools that ALREADY exist and risk getting left further and further behind a tiny number of people who develop comparative superpowers.

A trivially easy place to get started is increasing the pace of learning...

Here is an example (cleaned up but unedited) that I did between meetings yesterday to help folks get up to speed. The result? A 100+ page primer on therapeutic R&D. It's not perfect, but it's 💯 good enough for someone who just wants to get conversant. And including all my raw prompts (which, as a reminder, you can EDIT if you don't like the first response so you can keep a cleaner conversation... I edited some of these prompts a few times if it went off in a direction I didn't want) so you can see how I got this.

📄 Access the live GDoc (downloadable as a Word doc, etc.) here

🔊 🎵 And for those of you who learn better by audio, here's a Notebook LM generated podcast based only on this document (again, not perfect... some mispronunciations, etc., but still unbelievable that it was made for free in a few minutes with minimal prompting):