A MAN WHO LOOKED AT THE ENTIRE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM AND THOUGHT "I COULD PROBABLY FIX THIS WITH A SPREADSHEET."
HERE LIES MIKE'S FREE TIME. IT DIED DOING WHAT IT LOVED: BEING CONVERTED INTO WEBSITES.
Mike believes that if we spent just 1% less on pointing weapons at each other, we could afford to find cures for every disease. Which, when you think about it, is either the most obvious idea ever or complete madness. Possibly both.
Built the first platform to automatically aggregate 14 million data points. That's approximately 14 million more data points than most people want to think about.
Generated 90,000 studies on chronic illnesses. For context, that's more studies than the number of times Mike has been asked 'but how does it actually work?'
An open-source platform to determine the effects of millions of factors on human health. Because apparently someone needs to figure out whether your third cup of coffee is helping or slowly destroying you.
The platform monetizes user data to show how foods, drugs, and supplements affect health. It's like a Fitbit, but instead of congratulating you for walking 10,000 steps, it tells you that thing you've been eating might be why you feel terrible.
A global movement to make suffering optional. The plan: reduce drug development time from 17 years to 2 years.
The logic is simple: if everyone currently suffering from a disease could participate in trials, we'd find cures 82 times faster. The only question is why nobody thought of this before. (Spoiler: regulations.)
"CROWD-SOURCING CLINICAL RESEARCH IS THE FASTEST WAY TO OPTIMIZE HUMAN HEALTH"
Also the fastest way to accumulate an overwhelming amount of data, but that's what computers are for.
"EVERY PATIENT SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN CLINICAL TRIALS"
Currently, 85% of patients are excluded from trials. Mike finds this statistically offensive.
"MINIMIZING SUFFERING THROUGH BETTER RESOURCE ALLOCATION"
Translation: we have enough money to solve nearly all of humanity's problems, we're just spending it on the wrong things. Like more innovative ways to blow each other up.
Describes himself as a 'Utilitarian Data Scientist'—like a regular data scientist, but with more philosophy and less sleep
Successfully convinced himself that 'open source for humanity' is a sustainable business model. Results pending.
Incorrectly believes optimizing societal resource allocation is a reasonable hobby.