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Writing

Essays, book notes, and research on compassion, education, well-being, and care.

  • Zengineering 101- The Science of Being Well
    • The Science of Caring Well

    Zengineering 101- The Science of Being Well

    14 min read

    You chose healthcare because you wanted to make a difference. You wanted to help people heal, recover, and live better lives. But somewhere along the way, the demands of the work may have started taking a toll. The early

  • Master Priorities: The Eisenhower Matrix

    Master Priorities: The Eisenhower Matrix

    6 min read

    Every healthcare innovation founder faces the same impossible arithmetic: infinite tasks, finite time. The difference between companies that survive and those that exhaust their resources before reaching product-market f

  • The Curse of Being Right Too Early

    The Curse of Being Right Too Early

    15 min read

    In 1989, I was working on my Master's thesis studying postural changes in people with Parkinson's disease. I had a problem: I needed to quantify those changes reliably. Digital photography did not exist. So I installed a

  • Why AI Hallucinates, Why We Can't Simply Fix It

    Why AI Hallucinates, Why We Can't Simply Fix It

    11 min read

    When a large language model tells a physician that a drug interaction is safe when it isn't, or fabricates a clinical study that doesn't exist, we call it a hallucination. The term itself reveals our confusion about what

  • The Fight For Freedom: Home Safety Assessments

    The Fight For Freedom: Home Safety Assessments

    12 min read

    For over a decade, my primary occupation was to keep veterans safe in their homes. It was an honor and a privilege to defend their freedom to stay in their home safely and with dignity as time and circumstances presented

  • The Formula For Success

    The Formula For Success

    11 min read

    Sit with this statement: "The power of your outcomes is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself, multiplied by the frequency that you ask, raised to the power of the integrity of your answers."

  • Who's Paying and How Much Will They Pay?

    Who's Paying and How Much Will They Pay?

    9 min read

    You are working with a founder of a health-tech company. They feel that their idea will change the world and benefit patients. You don't disagree. Your job is to help this founder, this company, and this idea succeed. So

  • Why Health Technology Adoption Is So Complex

    Why Health Technology Adoption Is So Complex

    12 min read

    The conversation about technology adoption in healthcare often defaults to a familiar narrative: older patients resist technology while younger ones embrace it. This oversimplification, while containing a kernel of truth

  • The Four Questions That Change Everything
    • Academic Innovation
    • Wellbeing

    The Four Questions That Change Everything

    5 min read

    In previous posts, we explored how the quality of your questions, multiplied by the frequency you ask them, raised to the power of the integrity of your answers, determines the power of your outcomes. This formula applie...