Lifers with Christina Farr

I am a big fan of Chrissy Farr, since her days as a tech business reporter. But this most recent episode I feel the guest Eric Larsen lacked credibility. Specifically, he cited the demise of Cruise as a result of tech bias in assessing health outcomes, I.e AI in health is held to an unfair standard. He cited the one accident of the Cruise car dragging a pedestrian as an unfortunate event leading to bankruptcy. This revisionist recounting insults the intelligence of the listener. Cruise deliberately misled SF regulators with the accounting of the event. “It wasn’t the crime, it was the cover up.” As a result, regulators lost any modicum of trust with the company. As a result, GM sold it for parts. The guests purposeful lack of transparency of the event is emblematic of stakeholders cynical view of the tech industry. This is a criticism of the guest, and not Ms Farr who had an excellent, and informative podcast.

Why are Stress and Anxiety diagnoses? Like “Worried Well” people with these conditions have the financial means to pay for therapy. 50% of those that need therapy cannot access it.

Christina gets to the hard questions with top health care founders and operators, what they’ve learned and what we have to change. Guests are consistently top quality and she gets beyond the anodyne in her questions.

This is a nice balance to the male-dominated content out there and many interesting and valuable takes, but it’s buried. I’d like to hear more time spent on content and source of opinions and less time spent on ego and promotion of self/hosts and guests.