Archive

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

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