Writing — 02
A dated index of everything I've published here.
Ideas from building companies, practising medicine, and teaching — on AI, organizations, learning, and the institutions that shape them.
5 essays
- Aug 2026The Media Lab, and the Future I Still Want to BuildHow the Media Lab helped shape my path from medicine to building companies, my candidacy for Executive Director, and the future I still want to build.
- 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 2025Teaching at scale, writing for one studentNotes from making health and medicine explanations for a very large audience, and why I still write for one person.