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Notes on medicine, machines, and the people we leave behind.
A working record from the intersection of clinical practice, health technology, and public-interest science. I write slowly, cite carefully, and try to earn the chance to be quoted.
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Reading — On the MIT Media Lab director search
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The Media Lab has always been an argument about what a laboratory is for. Not a department, not a product group, not a think tank — something stranger and more useful than any of those. I put my name forward for its directorship because I think the argument is worth having again, in public, with the stakes that 2026 has handed us.
Continue reading →A lab is a promise about which questions are allowed to be asked.