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In 2022 2-Dooz held the inaugural Resilience Suicide Prevent Challenge; a yearly fundraiser to support veterans participating in a clinical study that explores the relationship between stress and suicidal ideation. The raised funds are being used to compensate veterans for their time commitment to the study and for study equipment that enables their participation.
The announcement of the challenge was met with a lot of positive feedback, but one long-time friend and former coworker asked me a question that gave me pause: "Why are you doing this?"
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Keywords: tech companies, social responsibility, veterans, suicide prevention, resilience, leadership
On July 29, 2025, Founding Member Company 2-Dooz, a leader in mental health AI innovation, announced the successful completion of a pioneering study that validated its proprietary TALUS™ AI Mental Fitness Test. This novel experiment utilized Google's Gemini Large Language Model (LLM) to accurately simulate a 'typical person' taking the TALUS AI test. The consistent 'Thriving' categorization of this simulated user by the TALUS AI model directly aligned with 2-Dooz's real-world user data, providing a robust comparative validation for the test's ability to accurately estimate typical mental fitness levels.
TALUS (Trained Artificial Logic Used for Safety) is 2-Dooz’s foundational Mental Health Safety AI model and is expected to power this forum's suicide risk assessment tool. Trained on clinician-curated datasets, TALUS AI is exceptionally compact requiring minimal memory, processing and power for both training and inferencing, relative to LLM footprints. TALUS AI is a core model that serves as the foundation for a family of multimodal AI models which target specific aspects of mental health. TALUS AI estimates the mental fitness for users of the TALUS AI Mental Fitness Test.
The participant in this study was Google's Gemini LLM. Click to read Gemini's account of the study from its perspective.
Keywords: TALUS AI Mental Fitness Test, Gemini, AI, PTSD, clinical study, virtual clinical study, simulated study cohort member
“Man’s—often wrong but generally useful— psychological tendencies are quite numerous and quite different.”
--Charlie Munger, The Psychology of Human Misjudgment
Billionaire investor Charlie Munger was keenly interested in what drives human behavior. Together with his business partner Warren Buffet, he helped to build Birkshire Hathaway into one of the largest and most successful corporations of all time—valued at a market capitalization of nearly 777 billion dollars at the time of his passing. Munger’s acute understanding of human motivation undoubtedly contributed to his investing success. Fortunately for us, in 2005, he collected his thoughts on human tendencies in an essay titled, “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment,” which in his words is a “magnum opus on why we behave the way we do.”
Here I present Munger’s collective insights in a manner that I hope is more appealing to a broader, younger audience; one that is prone to ignore any advice coming from an "old" guy, even one as successful as Munger. This Psychology of Human Misjudgment Remix is a contemporary retelling of Munger's essay, utilizing the musical musings of Beyonce, Rihanna, and Taylor Swift to amplify the presentation.
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Keywords: Charlie Munger, Beyonce, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, human tendencies, misjudgment
“To whom much is given, much is expected.”
--Luke 12:48
Well, it didn’t exactly quote Luke. But that is the gist of it.
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Keywords: generative AI, Bard, tech industry, social value creation, Top 10 List, purpose and profits
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