Writing — 02
A dated index of everything I've published here.
Each essay has a date, a stable address, and its own notes — so anything worth quoting has somewhere permanent to land.
5 essays
- Aug 2026On the MIT Media Lab director searchWhy I put my name forward to lead the Media Lab, and what I think the job actually is in 2026.
- Jun 2026Academia and tech are one system nowThe old division of labour — universities ask, companies ship — has quietly collapsed. Pretending otherwise is what keeps producing bad incentives.
- Mar 2026Medicine taught me to ship differentlyWhat clinical training does to a founder's instincts — for better, and in a few specific ways for worse.
- Nov 2025What building SoWork taught me about cultureCulture isn't the offsite or the values page. It's the set of things that happen when nobody is scheduling them.
- Aug 2025Ten million views and one studentNotes from making health and medicine explanations for a very large audience, and why I still write for one person.