2023
- 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
- 04 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
- 01 Jan - Encanto
2021
- 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