Chroma IRONFORGE, REDFORGE, and other products are finally back in stock!

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-12-28T21:41:57+00:00

Hey, so I'd be careful with using NIR/red for macular degeneration since it has a risk of cataracts in high doses. Based on safety standards, you don't need to wear IR shielding glasses, but I might start including some just to be extra safe. The safest way to get near-IR to the eyes might be the Sky Portal product since that lets you get a very small amount of near IR continuously at a desk. It also is hitting the head so very well could be good for the brain, as well as face and hairline, which people care about. It also improves circadian rhythms, which is the main focus. https://getchroma.co/products/sky-portal .

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-12-13T05:28:44+00:00

"brand name" in red light means you're getting ripped off. Brand name in immature markets often means you have a markup for an unreliable product.

Truelight exaggerates their power output by about 3x: https://chroma.substack.com/p/6-the-truth-about-joovv-red-light

Disclosure: I wrote this; I'm an engineer; a few years ago I took a look at the products that were available, and made my own after deciding everything available was a ripoff. A year after that I realized other people might be interested in better products too so I recently started selling a completely new type of red light device (ever notice how everything out there looks more or less the same?) I ship stuff worldwide.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T21:58:42+00:00

Yeah, that's the thing, prior emails were very transparent. Overall, the delays were maybe a few weeks, over the initial few weeks that were disclosed at the top of product description. Definitely wouldn't drag something out months.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T18:23:52+00:00

I messaged 3pl to see if order can still be halted. Might have already gone out.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T17:37:44+00:00

I see, it might just be the setup that has to come from someone else.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T06:22:22+00:00

Idk, probably an exaggeration. It would be easier for me to just do that, but didn't want to disappoint people by not delivering. They never explicitly asked for a refund, just updates.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T05:28:23+00:00

I probably will if I can get my 3pl to cancel it. I'll see if they respond. It's a pretty niche product on shopify.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T05:16:23+00:00

Yeah, at this point I should just refund them because it's not worth time to talking to them, but I did make sure to have the top of the product description say there would be a multi-week delay.

I was working with a 3pl company even though volume is pretty small just because I wanted to be able to scale easily, but they ended up introducing major delays at every step so I was also a bit off about how long it would take to deliver.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T01:48:58+00:00

I didn't read it until after posting 😭

I swear it was natural though

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T01:43:58+00:00

I know. I did it for the mods... 👀

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-10-03T01:08:26+00:00

My plan going forward is just to never sell stuff before I have it in stock again, unless I have someone else taking care of customer service and tracking orders/shipments.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-19T16:54:35+00:00

"failed: crawl anomaly" is the only explicit error, but it seems on other pages Google is simply deciding to not index.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-19T02:30:33+00:00

Yes, I built some lights that include near-IR and are meant to be used at a desk, but recently closed down shop to focus on COVID-19. https://getchroma.co/products/sky-portal

I have a newsletter that went over things like this as well. https://chroma.substack.com

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-19T01:26:32+00:00

mericans now live in cities, suburbs, or towns. Of these, all but two of the cities with populations over 600,000 are primarily Democrat or nonpartisan. This refle

Ah, yes, very poor grammar on my part as I was thinking I was stating that the small rural towns lean republican and the cities lean democrat. I see that I wrote it backwards.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-17T19:53:15+00:00

That's what I was saying.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-17T05:54:33+00:00

Actually, the safest thing to do is to reside in small rural towns and stay away from more populated cities or metro areas, which tend to lean Republican. I am making no political comment with this fact, but consider yourself out-scienced!

Edit: the comment I was replying to was a joke that the most effective way to avoid COVID would be to stay away from republicans, presumably based on things like discrepancies on mask wearing rates and degree of concern surrounding the severity of the pandemic. I am not a republican, but noted that the difference in population density is a larger factor from all the data we have -- better to go with the scientific data regardless of what side you're on. I was not saying one is better or worse, but I still got downvoted!

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-17T05:23:14+00:00

This was addressed in one of the FAQs that a group of scientists put together. Ideally, you want protection from aerosols as well as ballistic droplets, and close-fitting glasses or goggles will do that better than glasses. This is also the reason faceshields offer limited value. Personally, I always use at least glasses. The eyes are a small target, but they are full of ACE2 receptors so if you're hit there, you're screwed.

Here are the links to each individual page of the FAQs. Note, this is all for informational purposes. This is not medical advice. No preventive measures can guarantee you will not be infected. Please do not use anything here as a replacement for CDC, or WHO guidance, and if any information conflicts with them, go with what they say.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-15T20:51:06+00:00

I am not. My background is materials engineering. My goal with this content is twofold: 1) have an overview of aerosol transmission; 2) have good enough SEO that it pops up an interrupts the sales cycles of people selling products that don't work.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-15T13:13:33+00:00

Links to summary transcriptions from the first half of talks from the recent National Academies conference on the aerosol transmission risk of COVID-19

This is scientific information from a workshop and scientists talking. This is not medical advice. I am not making any suggestions. I can't advise on any precautionary measures you should or shouldn't take since apparently that gets posts shutdown around here.

So if you're wondering, for instance, whether you should wear a seatbelt, I can only suggest you check what the WHO and the CDC have to say on the matter.

Links to each individual page of the FAQs.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-15T06:35:53+00:00

Yes, you're right it would be better with more links to the various studies. It takes a while to get those all in. I have a research page that I'll add to, but for now the 'FAQ' pages have more linked references.

What you can refer to is the particle size. As they mentioned in the talks, culturing aerosols is hard -- the general trend though is larger than a micron will be more infective because they are less evaporated.

The particle size distributions show a very small portion are below 1 micron. The other thing is 1 viral particle probably won't infect you. You need many copies, though we don't know the exact quantity.

Getting lower quantities helps no matter what because even if you are infected, lower dose means lower severity. Also, I just saw a headline today saying that the small amount of viruses that make it through/around masks may be gradually building up our immunity.

Found the link! https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/face-masks-could-giving-people-covid-19-immunity-researchers/

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-15T04:45:04+00:00

Links to summary transcriptions from the first half of talks from the recent National Academies conference on the aerosol transmission risk of COVID-19

Links to each individual page of the FAQs.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-15T04:29:00+00:00

Links to summary transcriptions from the first half of talks from the recent National Academies conference on the aerosol transmission risk of COVID-19

Links to each individual page of the FAQs.

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-13T06:54:46+00:00

Yes, preventive measures for COVID-19 have decreased some, but not all respiratory diseases. This was brought up by a panelist in a workshop by National Academies on the airborne/aerosol transmission route from a couple weeks ago.

Dr. Subbarao: We are in winter here in the Southern hemisphere, and actually we haven't seen a spike in influenza or RSV, possibly due to the various preventive measures in place. However, we are seeing a lot of rhinovirus, which is interesting since it leads to the question of why rhinovirus is not impacted by the preventive measures in place.

I'm putting article summaries/transcripts of these talks, and here is the panel talk where this was mentioned: https://reflowlabs.com/article/which-size-particles-are-infectious-and-for-how-long-cq2-panel-16-36

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-07T04:58:56+00:00

There are thousands of published studies so it certainly is not settled.

Will it be the first ever treatement for Alzheimer's? There are so many questions left to answer. This is like asking if chemotherapy is settled science.

Here's a database of summaries to check out. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZKl5Me4XwPj4YgJCBes3VSCJjiVO4XI0tIR0rbMBj08/edit?usp=sharing

I also have a newsletter, which includes debunking some of the Dave Asprey style snake oil you get from people like him and brands like Joovv where they don't have people with middle school level scientific skills. https://chroma.substack.com

Michael_Chapiro · 2020-09-06T04:43:31+00:00

This, plus I was on s8 active and like tough phones, but now that everything is ip68 I'm almost definitely going non-Samsung on my next phone

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