Medicine, technology, and the art of beginning.
The reading shelf
A growing collection of ideas that stayed with me after I closed the book. These are short reflections, not complete reviews.
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Small acts of attention are often cheaper than the damage caused by avoiding a difficult conversation.
I came for lessons about building companies and stayed for the honest passages about pressure, relationships, and making decisions before you have enough information.
A book I return to
Medicine is never only a technical problem; it is also a conversation about meaning, time, and what a person values.
This book made the distance between the textbook and the lived experience of illness feel very small. I read it slowly and underlined more than I expected.
Notes from the margins
The quality of an idea often depends on the quality of attention that came before it.
Less a manual than a set of invitations. It helped me think about writing as a way of noticing, not a performance that begins only when inspiration arrives.
Useful for building
When people struggle with a tool, the first question should be about the design—not the intelligence of the person using it.
I think about this whenever I make an interface for students. Good design removes uncertainty quietly; it rarely needs to announce how clever it is.
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