Archive

2024

• 13 Nov - Before making clinical trials faster, let's first agree on what they are
• 10 Nov - The immigrant indignation loop
• 05 Nov - A few mildly related pre-election observations
• 28 Oct - RSS and Instapaper as cup and saucer
• 26 Oct - Tolkien and the Incerto
• 23 Oct - Bench to bedside in a bad way (on the virtue of clinical trials)
• 12 Oct - Blogosphere's end
• 07 Oct - Food for thought, conservative and modern
• 28 Sep - The Forever Plague and its enemies
• 18 Sep - Today in teaching birds how to sing
• 11 Sep - Neighborhood forests and skyscraper trees
• 03 Sep - ChatGPT, the blog expert
• 02 Sep - ChatGPT, the font expert
• 21 Aug - Zombie medicine: it's everywhere, it's evil, and it's coming to get you (and your money)
• 12 Aug - The American Dream isn't dead, it's just not evenly distributed
• 20 Jul - The unintended consequences of death-delaying technologies
• 18 Jul - Why are clinical trials expensive?
• 13 Jul - Failure of imagination, drug cost edition
• 07 Jun - Polished excrement and diamonds in the rough
• 05 Jun - NotebookLM got an upgrade, and now I want DEVONthink AI even more
• 04 Jun - Notes on election day
• 31 May - Condemnation games
• 25 May - Anyone who is saying that LLMs are overrated hasn't used them for writing code
• 22 May - Why clinical trials aren't Steinway pianos
• 20 May - A short list of authors and books that by all accounts I should have found wonderful, or at least interesting, but ended up with a feeling of — meh — at best and often genuine dislike
• 12 May - After three months, I can put Apple Vision Pro in the "worth it" category
• 10 May - About that Apple add
• 05 May - Good podcast alert: the VPZD show
• 03 May - My entries in the April 2024 Photoblogging Challenge
• 03 Apr - The new Apple Vision Pro immersive video is fine
• 02 Apr - 📺 3 Body Problem
• 25 Mar - Style over precision, yet again
• 14 Mar - 📚 Finished reading: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
• 07 Mar - Can someone with connections please forward this to HBO?
• 06 Mar - An update on my use of AI
• 05 Mar - Apple Vision Pro versus business class ticket
• 04 Mar - Monday morning thoughts
• 01 Mar - ChatGPT as a chatbot is quite good, actually
• 27 Feb - The low-hanging fruit of medicine
• 26 Feb - On Journalist Science
• 20 Feb - 📺 True Detective: Night Country
• 16 Feb - There is at least one good reason to use AVP in public; alas, even I am too self-conscious to do it
• 11 Feb - Apple Vision Pro and productivity, one week in
• 05 Feb - February lectures of note
• 03 Feb - The first 24 hours with my new toy
• 27 Jan - Thank you for reading a draft of this
• 18 Jan - Apple's App Store is not a walled garden, it's a dumpy casino
• 11 Jan - 📚 Finished reading: Talent by Tyler Cowen
• 11 Jan - Middle school smart phones
• 07 Jan - Five somewhat esoteric mental models I have found useful
• 05 Jan - January lectures of note
• 02 Jan - 📚 24 books for 2024

2023

• 31 Dec - 📚 2023
• 30 Dec - 🎵 2023
• 29 Dec - 🍿 2023
• 28 Dec - The wellness visit
• 24 Dec - 📺 2023
• 23 Dec - Voices in my head, 2023
• 15 Dec - Theory and practice, drug cost edition
• 07 Dec - Midlife unclenching
• 05 Dec - December lectures of note
• 03 Dec - Spikes and swords and the misinformed
• 20 Nov - Why not use machine learning to rank residency applicants?
• 14 Nov - No one is hiding the miracle cures
• 10 Nov - Term confusion alert 2: outcome versus endpoint
• 08 Nov - The problem of optimization and scale
• 06 Nov - 📺 Bodies (2023)
• 03 Nov - November lectures of note
• 02 Nov - Skandalfreude: on the joys of being scandalized
• 31 Oct - Term confusion alert: efficacy versus effectivness
• 27 Oct - The first principle of being successful is to be lucky
• 26 Oct - The sad state of (Serbian) science news
• 24 Oct - The Get Shorty style of peer review
• 22 Oct - Convulsionews
• 20 Oct - News noise
• 20 Oct - Education as scaffolding
• 19 Oct - Will the last journalist please turn off the lights?
• 16 Oct - Technology as the last refuge of a scoundrel
• 15 Oct - Notes from Honolulu
• 11 Oct - Promoting legislative reversal
• 10 Oct - On flaneuring
• 09 Oct - When did medical conference sessions become Apple keynotes?
• 04 Oct - The Renaissance woman
• 03 Oct - October lectures of note
• 02 Oct - Sometimes, the Tartars do show up
• 01 Oct - My entries in the September 2023 Photoblogging Challenge
• 29 Sep - Everything is hi-tech and no one is happy
• 28 Sep - Box-checking and deadlines are important, but are they "Science"?
• 27 Sep - Things I got wrong: in-person versus online
• 23 Sep - The Nobel committee hits and misses
• 22 Sep - Doing more is the American way, but you have to do more of the right thing
• 22 Sep - Some Friday afternoon drug price whataboutism
• 21 Sep - Drug price shenanigans
• 18 Sep - Re-capitalizing the i̶Internet
• 17 Sep - Why AI can't replace health care workers just yet
• 16 Sep - On the benefits of microblogging
• 15 Sep - There can be only one (priority)
• 06 Sep - September lectures of note
• 04 Sep - An update on shark teeth
• 01 Sep - Notes from a recorded lecture
• 31 Aug - Regulating Wisely
• 29 Aug - The (non)ergodicity of cancer screening
• 26 Aug - Notes from the Jersey Shore
• 25 Aug - The roundaboutness of Apple
• 24 Aug - Three good pieces
• 21 Aug - A few more notes on that vaccine study
• 20 Aug - Here's why.
• 17 Aug - A few brief updates on the petition to end Maintenance of Certification requirements
• 14 Aug - Fairwell, Kindle
• 13 Aug - Notes from Smith Island
• 11 Aug - "Freakonomics and global warming: What happens to a team of 'rogues' when there is no longer a stable center to push against?"
• 09 Aug - The Washington Post's innumeracy (or is it just bad faith) continues
• 08 Aug - Lockdowns or vaccines? Both, of course.
• 07 Aug - "The average doctor in the U.S. makes $350,000 a year. Why?"
• 04 Aug - 🍿 Oppenheimer (2023) was a *good* movie, but…
• 03 Aug - There is no left digit bias in medicine
• 02 Aug - Maximize this
• 31 Jul - My Venkatesh Rao reading list
• 29 Jul - Salvage and spoilage
• 23 Jul - Sometimes, that small print does matter
• 20 Jul - The definition of cancer, with a few side notes on impact factor
• 18 Jul - Kenilworth in July
• 16 Jul - A few personal blogs of note
• 15 Jul - 📺 The Bear, Season 2
• 12 Jul - Good words used badly: equitable
• 10 Jul - Shark teeth
• 06 Jul - An Island Out of Time (2019)
• 05 Jul - "Climate change could swamp this island. Home sales are surging."
• 03 Jul - Notes from OBX
• 02 Jul - Of roasts and awards
• 30 Jun - The making of a suitcase word: "gaslighting"
• 28 Jun - "All Immigrants Are Born on the Fourth of July"
• 26 Jun - Browser check
• 23 Jun - That feeling you get when something a long time coming finally does come out
• 17 Jun - WaPo: "Could cancer become a chronic, treatable disease? For many, it already is."
• 16 Jun - The Style of Board Orders and Chairman's Letters (and, one should add, E-mails)
• 13 Jun - 🏀 ESPN: How the Nuggets cultivated the NBA's most dynamic duo
• 05 Jun - The people against the United States Congress
• 04 Jun - ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.
• 25 May - "The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified"
• 24 May - Chores
• 18 May - Back to school
• 09 May - Revisiting AOL Hell
• 02 May - Millions of D.C. traffic tickets remain unpaid as bad drivers flee penalty - The Washington Post
• 02 May - May lectures of note
• 27 Apr - Notes on moving
• 12 Apr - Old man yells at "date me" docs
• 11 Apr - DMV flags
• 06 Apr - The Mastodon Vibe
• 03 Apr - April lectures of note
• 02 Apr - Updated thoughts on AI
• 02 Apr - Dopamine exchange networks
• 01 Apr - Now let me sell you something
• 21 Mar - Peace and joy through keeping house
• 17 Mar - Who needs TikTok when you have encyclopedias?
• 16 Mar - AI's thoughts about Stephen Wolfram's thoughts about whether AIs will take all our jobs and end human history
• 15 Mar - Daylight Shifting Torture
• 12 Mar - FT: the spectacular unravelling of the tech industry’s banker
• 10 Mar - Annus semi-mirabilis
• 09 Mar - Air power
• 07 Mar - My Browser Can Write Blog Posts For Me!
• 03 Mar - Fact checking fail of the day
• 02 Mar - BS bonanza
• 01 Mar - March lectures of note
• 20 Feb - Bias of the day: immortal time
• 17 Feb - LLM convergence
• 16 Feb - Notes from the future
• 15 Feb - Is the Sunshine Act a joke?
• 09 Feb - The academic prisoners' dilemma
• 04 Feb - Et tu, FT?
• 03 Feb - February lectures of note
• 02 Feb - Nitpick of the day: clinical trial versus clinical study
• 01 Feb - National Cancer Advisory Board meeting on February 9
• 01 Feb - Science and medicine blogs on FeedLand
• 31 Jan - Some work news
• 28 Jan - Invention versus discovery, medical treatment edition
• 27 Jan - Competing our way to Skynet
• 23 Jan - My first Covid-19 paper
• 23 Jan - Some phrases in Latin, from profound to trite
• 21 Jan - My position in regards to ChatGPT
• 19 Jan - Why are people losing their minds over ChatGPT?
• 14 Jan - News distortion, a case study
• 12 Jan - A yearly theme, of sorts
• 09 Jan - From the Annals of Internal Medicine: Curiosity
• 06 Jan - 23 books for 2023
• 03 Jan - 2022 in review: lists

2022

• 31 Dec - 2022 in review: books.
• 28 Dec - A short list of earnest but misguided attempts to reduce costs in medicine
• 27 Dec - Link rot
• 26 Dec - Infrastructure week
• 24 Dec - 2022 in review: television
• 23 Dec - 2022 in review: voices in my head
• 22 Dec - 2022 in review: music
• 19 Dec - About that new profile pic
• 13 Dec - Why is progress in biology so slow?
• 12 Dec - 🎥 A Gremlins re-watch
• 11 Dec - The cost of the ludic fallacy…
• 07 Dec - 2022 in review: disappointments
• 03 Dec - The Reverse Turing Test
• 28 Nov - The principal-agent problem of medicine
• 22 Nov - The Washington cottontails
• 21 Nov - Schroedinger's civilization
• 18 Nov - Public health, lead time bias, and The Dude
• 17 Nov - Not a tourist trap, DC edition
• 16 Nov - Lists for weekly review
• 15 Nov - Misfortune without delight
• 14 Nov - Don't go there, it's a tourist trap
• 13 Nov - Notes on Twitter
• 09 Nov - The driveway test
• 08 Nov - Everything Everywhere All at Once
• 05 Nov - Do better cancer drugs cost more?
• 05 Nov - Notes on Nashville
• 10 Sep - Junkspace
• 17 Aug - Word of the day: blankface
• 16 Aug - How Unforced Errors Hobbled America's Monkeypox Response
• 08 Aug - Luck
• 02 Aug - The perils of courting audience feedback, part deux
• 25 Jul - Don’t read the comments
• 24 Jul - On the scourge of sarcasm
• 23 Jul - Suffocating is the right word
• 15 Jul - Social sciences aren't the only ones with reproducibility issues
• 25 Jun - Notes from Asheville
• 16 Jun - All aboard the hype train
• 08 Jun - The bullshitization of science
• 07 Jun - To reform NIH, maybe you should first understand it?
• 06 Jun - Walking around Seoul
• 05 Jun - The New York Times should have its medical provider license revoked
• 30 May - Calculated Risks
• 30 May - Why not let them buy a rocket launcher?
• 29 May - Norm Macdonald's last show
• 29 May - Bullshit Jobs
• 21 May - A World Without Email
• 07 May - The Demon-Haunted World
• 03 May - Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light
• 22 Apr - Zeynep Tufekci on missed opportunities
• 22 Apr - Alan Jacobs on science and politics
• 19 Apr - Twitter-friendly controversies
• 18 Apr - Debates I'd rather avoid
• 18 Apr - The most important article you'll read this week
• 27 Mar - Understanding Nonlinear Dynamics
• 24 Mar - Station Eleven
• 20 Mar - Back to microblogging
• 15 Mar - Turning Red
• 13 Mar - Where Good Ideas Come From
• 03 Mar - The French Dispatch
• 23 Feb - Pieces of the Action
• 01 Feb - January reading
• 31 Jan - Safe Haven
• 26 Jan - How to Live
• 21 Jan - Twilight of Democracy
• 19 Jan - Four Thousand Weeks
• 18 Jan - The Scout Mindset
• 06 Jan - How to Speak and How to Listen
• 05 Jan - One last thing about Don't Look Up
• 04 Jan - How to Think
• 03 Jan - The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
• 02 Jan - 22 books for 2022
• 02 Jan - A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
• 01 Jan - Science and scientism
• 01 Jan - Happy New Year

2021

• 31 Dec - Encanto
• 31 Dec - Newsletters of note
• 31 Dec - Corona 300
• 29 Dec - Influence
• 28 Dec - Don't Look Up
• 28 Dec - Goodbye, Drummer (for now)
• 25 Dec - Zero to One
• 25 Dec - Voices in my head, 2022
• 28 Oct - Godwin’s Law and the Rise of Hyperbole on MedTwitter
• 23 Oct - Dune (2021)
• 19 Oct - The Mysterious Benedict Society, Season 1
• 18 Oct - A brief chronology of my employment
• 11 Oct - CODA
• 08 Sep - The Mare of Easttown
• 26 Aug - The White Lotus, Season 1
• 06 Aug - How I handle meetings (which most certainly is not how everyone should, but again, may be useful to some)
• 02 Aug - Blogroll
• 31 Jul - Notes from West Virginia
• 22 Jun - The Mitchells vs. The Machines
• 17 Jun - Range — Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• 05 Jun - Clearing the PDF log jam
• 03 Jun - Interstellar (2014)
• 31 May - Mulan (2020)
• 30 May - Cruella (2021)
• 29 May - A promising young woman (2021)
• 19 May - Conspiracy — Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the anatomy of intrigue
• 13 May - Dune (1984)
• 24 Apr - Shin Godzilla (2016)
• 21 Apr - Against sarcasm
• 20 Apr - The Year Earth Changed (2021)
• 19 Apr - Our Towns (2021)
• 18 Apr - Kong: Skull Island (2017)
• 17 Apr - Godzilla (2014)
• 19 Mar - The Tree of Life
• 16 Feb - The Undoing
• 14 Feb - The Social Network
• 03 Feb - Chernobyl
• 30 Jan - The Mandalorian, Season 2
• 24 Jan - The Goldfinch
• 23 Jan - The Mandalorian, Season 1
• 16 Jan - Things I used to like but now wonder what in the world I was thinking
• 16 Jan - Things I heard were good but was holding out for reasons unknown then wondered why I haven't tried them sooner
• 13 Jan - Some observations on Covid-19 from recent personal experience
• 12 Jan - National Treasure: Book of Secrets
• 08 Jan - National Treasure
• 07 Jan - Day Seven
• 06 Jan - Day Six
• 05 Jan - Day Five
• 04 Jan - Day Four
• 03 Jan - Day Three
• 02 Jan - Day Two
• 01 Jan - Day One

2020

• 29 Dec - Soul
• 27 Dec - Palm Springs
• 24 Dec - Baby Driver
• 23 Dec - Voices in my head, 2021
• 22 Dec - Barry Lyndon
• 19 Dec - The Great British Baking Show, Season 8
• 14 Dec - Wolfwalkers
• 24 Nov - The Computer and the Brain
• 23 Nov - Enola Holmes
• 15 Nov - The Queen's Gambit
• 14 Nov - Ted Lasso, Season 1
• 06 May - Malignant

2019

• 31 Dec - My American decade
• 29 Dec - Watchmen, Season 1
• 23 Dec - Voices in my head, 2020
• 15 Dec - Capitalism, Alone
• 23 Nov - Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
• 12 Nov - The 2010s
• 04 Nov - Talking to Strangers
• 03 Nov - Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• 24 Sep - Consider the Lobster
• 12 Sep - It's time to stop the foreign doctor kabuki
• 20 Aug - Diagnosis (1)
• 25 Jul - In the land of outrage and snark
• 04 Jul - The Royal Society and the Invention of Modern Science
• 25 Jun - The Language of God
• 14 Jun - The Theory of Everything
• 09 Jun - Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• 30 May - Get Out
• 20 May - Dallas impressions
• 16 May - Upgrade
• 13 May - Catch-22
• 06 May - Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About
• 03 May - Maui
• 01 May - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• 30 Apr - Aquaman
• 28 Apr - Maui, more impressions
• 25 Apr - Maui first impressions
• 24 Apr - Foundation
• 22 Apr - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
• 02 Apr - The Making of the Atomic Bomb
• 25 Jan - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
• 20 Jan - How I handle email (which is not how everyone should, but you may find some of these useful)
• 12 Jan - Flashpoint: Trieste

2018

• 28 Dec - Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
• 21 Dec - Voices in my head, 2019 edition
• 28 Nov - The drunkard's walk: How randomness rules our lives
• 27 Nov - Buffet: The making of an American capitalist
• 20 Nov - A Wrinkle in Time
• 12 Nov - Ending medical reversal
• 20 Oct - Stubborn Attachments
• 07 Sep - Applied minds: how engineers think
• 06 May - 50/50
• 15 Apr - If on a winter's night a traveler
• 24 Jan - The death and life of great American cities
• 08 Jan - The Last Jedi

2017

• 27 Dec - What I believe that most people probably don’t (no data behind this, just the armchair)
• 27 Dec - Brush up on your Serbian
• 24 Dec - A few unpopular (in certain circles) opinions from a person who has no rights having them
• 23 Dec - Voices in my head, 2018 edition
• 07 Jun - The hero with a thousand faces
• 26 Apr - Doctor Strange
• 25 Apr - Black Swan
• 25 Mar - Stoker
• 23 Mar - La La Land
• 14 Mar - Birdman
• 07 Mar - Hacksaw Ridge
• 06 Mar - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
• 28 Feb - Moonlight
• 26 Feb - Whiplash
• 25 Feb - Arrival
• 23 Feb - Manchester by the Sea
• 19 Feb - Looper
• 15 Feb - The Dark Forest
• 12 Feb - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
• 11 Feb - While We're Young
• 07 Feb - Begin Again
• 29 Jan - Captain Fantastic
• 28 Jan - How to write a thesis
• 26 Jan - They Came Together
• 23 Jan - The Autopsy of Jane Doe
• 21 Jan - Brick
• 19 Jan - An Education
• 18 Jan - The Three Body Problem
• 18 Jan - Children of Men

2016

• 12 Jul - The culture that is Northwest Washington DC
• 18 Feb - Level up
• 11 Feb - Podcast time
• 08 Feb - Storytellers
• 04 Feb - The 7:07 train dilemma
• 04 Jan - Yes, but why?
• 02 Jan - Locked in

2015

• 14 Aug - Programming, meet medicine
• 01 Jul - A yearly welcome
• 29 May - The overhead
• 07 May - Talk therapy
• 28 Feb - Apple’s App Store rules, Dosegate edition

2014

• 30 Dec - Statistics resources for clinicians
• 20 Dec - Why be a chief resident?
• 17 Dec - A few good pens
• 11 Dec - How to say I Don't Know like an intern
• 03 Nov - On medical euphemisms
• 21 Sep - It’s well-known that most common knowledge is false
• 21 Sep - How to spend a Monday morning train ride
• 14 Sep - No, there's nothing wrong with your attention span
• 22 Aug - What is the evidence for that?
• 25 Jul - Research during residency
• 22 Jul - Down the vim rabithole
• 01 Jul - June 2014, final tally
• 22 Jun - Goodbye, Sinai
• 03 Jun - Three tech tips for new interns
• 18 May - Just can't get a break
• 14 May - A podcast a day
• 30 Apr - To Cuba and back
• 14 Jan - Get a journal article through your library proxy quickly with Alfred 2
• 03 Jan - The difference between being well and feeling well

2013

• 29 Dec - Two podcasts, three doctors, one good show
• 25 Dec - Ten common residency idioms and phrases
• 18 Dec - As a one-time interviewer and two-time interviewee...
• 03 Dec - 30 iPad apps I use almost every day
• 24 Sep - On RVUs, sort of
• 15 Sep - On patient notes and busy interns

2012

• 02 Dec - Peeves

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