Updated October 14th, 2024 at 2:40pm EDT while waiting for a ferry in Savannah, Georgia to take me across the river and to the Amazon-item-on-sale named Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa which has everything in it’s title except for what it is, which is a hotel.
I am in Savannah for a gathering of neuromuscular disease specialists, even though I am far from being one. Such is the fate of MDs who enter industry: abandon (sub)specialization and embrace general practice.
The graduate course in clinical trials at University of Maryland Baltimore Country is well under way. We had our first cancellation by a guest lecturer this week for a scheduling conflict — it happens, and in fact it happened to me just a few hours ago for a meeting that didn’t show up in my calendar — but through the miracle of video recording we will be able to have a “time-delayed” lecture. Makes you think why we have virtual lectures going live in the first place, huh?
Episode 221 was a short one. This is the under-appreciated fact about online content: most limits are self-imposed. The best way to start hating something and stop doing it is set too much structure around it, and episodes varying between 6 minutes and 65 is how my co-host and I managed to publish every Monday on the dot for the last 4 years. Yes, every Monday — some structure is unavoidable, or you may just stop doing it altogether.
The blogosphere ended so why even bother? Because it’s the right thing to do, and forget about the views.
Is back in D.C. and I miss them already. Good thing it’s a short trip.